Robert Wilson Quotes

New York is very provincial. They're very cut-off; they don't have an awareness of so much that is going on in the world.

Robert Wilson

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To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership.

Jessica Lange

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I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.

John Galliano

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I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

Sting

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My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

Tom Perrotta

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Any image I have, it's just what I do, but it comes off as being very pretentious. When you're a bit in the public astigmatism, anything you do seems like you did it so somebody would see you do it, like showing up at the right parties.

Tom Waits

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To write about a place, you have to live there.

Jonathan Ames

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Every time I try to tell people things about my career, I wonder if that's the truth or something I'm fantasizing about.

Johnny Mathis

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You have to figure out what's important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it's been a positive technique for me. I'm not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

Dawn Olivieri

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Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

Bryan Procter

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'Hannibal' is not reality; the whole show is not reality. It's heightened reality: they want music the entire time.

Brian Reitzell

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This much is true: When we created the euro, it wasn't possible to create a political union along with it. People weren't ready for that. But since then, they've grown more willing to go in that direction. It's a process, one that is sometimes laborious and sometimes slow. But it's important to keep the populations involved.

Wolfgang Schauble

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I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once. Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I'm with the blacks, because we're white trash.

Phil Robertson

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