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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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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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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Πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λάκτιζε.
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Never had so much been surrendered by so many to so few.
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When our thoughts are born, Though they be good and humble, one should mind How they are reared, or some will go astray And shame their mother.
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Ronaldinho did things that I've never seen anyone do.
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@JimmyBennett love you for life my Jimmy. You know I've been testing 9 years old lately but unfortunately ain't nobody like you sonny.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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To me, 'Blackberry Way' stands up as a song that could be sung in any era, really. We do it with the new doing all sort of fanfare things in it and it works really well. It goes down great with audiences.
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
