Bob Nelson Quotes
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I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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Working with special needs children is hard.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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Beyond just the respect that you want to have, people just miss out on being in the moment when they have a screen in front of their face. I just don't know to tell people. I feel it's like, you know, 'Turn off your phone and go to the theater.'
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One of the major issues that's constantly batted around Hollywood and the media is my industry's responsibility toward the portrayal of violence. There's the irony of the films that glorify it and the individuals taking positions against it. It's a very confusing, confounding place.
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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.
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Christmas is a great time to recommit to each other and our communities.
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My mother had a great vinyl collection, and she was constantly playing female singer-songwriters. I first learned about classic song structures by listening to them, and Laura Nyro particularly stood out. Her voice was outside what you'd usually hear on the radio; that really appealed to me.
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Just the act of listening means more than you can imagine to most employees.
