Bob Balaban Quotes
Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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I love women's bodies. I love luxury.
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Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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The social network is the paradigm of the modern service application.
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Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here.
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Youth is fair, a graceful stag, Leaping, playing in a park. Age is gray, a toothless hag, Stumbling in the dark.
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I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on.
