Bob Balaban Quotes

And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

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• When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.

  

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• I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

  

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• 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

  

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• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

  

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• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

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• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

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• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

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• I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.

  

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• The thing people don't understand is that touring or travelling or whatever you do in my position means you go to all these cool places all over the world, but you see everything from a car window. You don't get to see much of the city or meet people at all.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
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• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

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• I can't speak on behalf of the show. I'm not a creator; I'm just a pawn.

  

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• I just really allowed my muse to be my guide and I just go with whatever I'm feeling.

  

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• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

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• Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

  

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• Everything about Canada makes me proud to be Canadian.

  

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• Like a lot of freelance cartoonists, when any opportunity like that comes along, I have a hard time saying no, whether it makes sense or not.

  

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• When I'm on the field, the trick I like to do most are stepovers. For me, it's a simple, beautiful dribble that also has a point.

  

  Neymar
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• You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There's nothing worse, as an actor, to show up and then feel like you have to protect yourself somehow because you don't feel like you're in good hands.

  

  James Badge Dale
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• I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound.

  

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• And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you've got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime.

  

  Bob Balaban
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