Bob McNair Quotes
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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The Internet is fascinating but also stupid in a way. You only see two-dimensional images, and you think you've seen it and know it.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
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There are a lot of times where, filming 'It Follows,' I'm fighting against a guy dressed in a green suit for special effects, and I'm just like, 'No. There's no way this is going to be pulled off.'
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find.
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
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Soul is when you take a song and make it a part of you - a part that's so true, so real, people think it must have happened to you. … It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, do we? But it's a force that can light a room. Soul is like electricity, like a spirit, a drive, a power.
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I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.
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I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.
