Bob Edwards Quotes
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I am completely in favour of dialogue and engagement. But it must be a true, open dialogue.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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My first introduction to television, and really just the business in general, was working with David Lynch, with his incredibly open, creative mind that was not following any rules. I didn't know it, because I hadn't been in the business.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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You know for me when I promise something I want to deliver. If you don't, you have to disappear.
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I was a kid living in New Jersey, who – I'd wanted to make movies since I was a little kid, so that came before music for me. But I started playing drums just as a hobby, and I wasn't even really into jazz that much.
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My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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God gives all to those, who get up early.
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One of my best friends growing up was Vietnamese, and he and his mom would teach me how to say certain things so I could impress my nail girls. Then the nail girls would teach me how to count to 100 and basic things like 'Thank you' and 'You're welcome.' It's funny, because any accent that I do now always turns into Vietnamese.
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I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process.
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As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.
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My friends call me 'Dolittle One' [a reference to her physical stature and affinity for animals].
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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.
