Bob Balaban Quotes
I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I'm a hoot and a half, I like to think.
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I could never ever say enough about Matt Amato. He has an indescribable presence; this warm, loving, serene calm with intense interest and excitement bubbling beneath his exterior.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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For me, I can't see Liverpool without him because he's just been there since I was a kid. I had him on the back of my shirt. He's always been on the team every time I've watched Liverpool. It's going to be really weird next season, a Steven Gerrard-less Liverpool side.
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We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire.
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What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
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I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.
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As a biologist, I can't think of myself as anything but an animal among animals and plant.
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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.
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I just have to make sure I keep improving my game in every aspect there is.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.
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I always think that a director who knows about the technical side, but cares about the acting performances and casting as well, is ahead of the game.
