Bob Iger Quotes
People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.
Quotes to Explore
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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I acted in high school and studied at the British American Drama Academy in Oxford for one summer. I minored in theater, and I was always acting growing up and stuff, but really, I was just more interested in the comedy of it all. So for me, it's always comedy, and then acting is just one medium of comedy.
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I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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I'm a real optimist.
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After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.
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When the mind is allowed to relax, inspiration often follows.
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I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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I don't want to get pretentious, but there's an art to doing sitcoms; you have to make it work in that format.
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People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.
