Bob Balaban Quotes
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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I've got a couple of Harleys and a couple of Ducatis.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Living in Malibu is like being in a bubble, so discovering others that are so different from me has been incredibly gratifying.
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Without husbands, women have to focus on earning more. They work longer hours, they're willing to relocate and they're more likely to choose higher-paying fields like technology.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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I got to New York when I was eighteen. I was knocking around, trying to be an actor, writer, musician, whatever happened.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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People choose to read, and it takes effort. It's not one of those hobbies that asks nothing of the person who is doing it. It's more than a hobby.
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Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
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I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.
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Hearing the blues changed my life.
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Man exists for his own sake and not to add a laborer to the state.
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Life is a beautiful struggle People search through the rubble for a suitable hussle Some people using their noodle Some people using their muscle Some people put it all together make it fit like a puzzle
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With a good melody... music gets me through everything.
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When I was starting out, William Goldman took me under his wing, and he's still the person I show pages to.
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Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.
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Going on tour, you don't have a lot of time to mull things over. You're just kind of, "Another beer, another show, another song."
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It's impracticable to halt the exponential advancement of technology.
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
