Bob Hoskins Quotes
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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Twitter should ban my mother.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
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I don't take my clothes off in my videos.
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The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?
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If I was a state, I would like to see education left to the schools themselves, but I don't want the federal government involved in education. I think that it ends up setting standards that cost you time and money and don't make any difference in education. I want to stop that.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.
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Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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The movies were custard compared to politics.
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I was born in the technology era.
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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It is easy but inaccurate to label any legislation which makes it easier for working families to combine family and work responsibilities 'job killers.'
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Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.
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I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.
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Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
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Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.
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I did have my beginnings in doo-wop music; I had a group called the Tokens in Brooklyn. They went on, of course, to do 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' and a lot of other great things. I went on as a soloist. But I still love doo-wop music.
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I remember the first time I ever wrote down a song was when I was 6. I was at my friend Emma's house, and we wrote a song called 'Girls' Rules.'
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Like everyone, I had low self-esteem, and I wanted to be like the pretty, popular girls.
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I've watched films and even forgotten I'm in them.
