Bob Balaban Quotes
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I was raised looking at women who were strong, and they weren't really into playing race cards or playing gender cards. I didn't grow up around women who were like, 'Well, let the boys do that, and let the girls do that.' I didn't really see that in my house.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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I am a big PETA supporter, and their East Coast headquarters is the Sam Simon building, and their West Coast headquarters is in the Bob Barker building.
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Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It's down every street and up every alley. There's a pipeline.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.
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Jeff Foxworthy had that whole "You might be a redneck" thing; Larry the Cable Guy had "Git-R-Done." Some comics have that hook. Dane Cook had that super finger. So I just caught on early on. I ran with "Fluffy."
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Most everything I do on a creative level is beyond the fame and money. I sort of work as an actor... and take care of my family and mouths to feed and all of that. I don't really care about fame, but our business means money sometimes and financial success, which I can pass on to my family.
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I think family is so important.
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I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.
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I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.
