Bob Newhart Quotes
The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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'Promiscuous' implies that I'm not choosy. In fact I'm very choosy. I just happen to have had a lot of choices.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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My doodles and sketches are not the work of an academic engineer. They represent many years of design study in attempts to produce the best value for money in the field of small car design.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.
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Children tell the truth.
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The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.
