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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.
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Years ago on TV, I played people like Doc Holliday and Jesse James on Westerns.
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I am the most tense, annoying person in the world.
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Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.'
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If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.
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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.
