Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Robbie Robertson Quotes

My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

Robbie Robertson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: July 5, 1943

Topics

Mother Music Me Sometimes Out Big

'Paycheck,' I thought, was a really, really good idea. I never got an opportunity, unfortunately, to read the novel, but I loved the idea of how to deal with intellectual properties. I just don't know that we necessarily got to the heart of that particular idea. I think it became more of a chase movie than anything else.

Joe Morton

Good Opportunity Heart Think Thought

My mom has a very high-pitched voice, and there are some similarities between her and the voice I use on 'Big Bang,' although my mom has the Jersey accent, so I took that out. But the tone of the voice is very similar to my mother's.

Melissa Rauch

Mother Mom Voice Out Similarities

People are just so stupid.

Anna Nicole Smith

People Stupid Just

As soon as I signed for the French rugby union, it was just a huge relief, you know, because I was out of Sydney and out of sight doing what was best for myself.

Sonny Bill Williams

Myself Best Doing You Know Sydney

Even the way Mamet describes silences within his plays is different. There are pauses; there are pauses within parentheses; there are pauses before dialogue; there are pauses in the spaces between the dialogue - there's this extraordinary vocabulary of silence which is all there on the page, mapped out.

Tom Sturridge

Silence Page Way Vocabulary Within

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Robert Caro

Life Power Man Democracy Political

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

Rita Moreno

Me Moving You Keep Moving Done Need

You're torn between wanting to fill in all the spaces and knowing that's really going to screw up the screenplay. And yet, how are you going to communicate it to people who really don't understand the process?

Robert Towne

People Process You Understand Up

It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes.

Rufus Wainwright

World More Seems Get Like Older

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Challenges You Know Skills Flow

I didn't know much about computers. I still worked on a manual Olivetti typewriter.

Mona Simpson

Computers Know Typewriter Still Much

I'm voting for Hillary Clinton, proudly. I think it's her time. I think she's very experienced, I think she'd make a good president. I also think it would be monumental to have the first female president in the United States.

Julia Stiles

Good Time Think Voting She First