Bob Newhart Quotes
Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
Quotes to Explore
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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I owe it all to Jesus.
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I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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When I have a creative block, I take walks. I like to see what shapes stick out - so many legs rushing by at once, it can seem abstract. I don't need to see great art to get stirred up. Music does that for me more easily.
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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As a child, as a cinemagoer, I think there is nothing better than being in a cinema or watching a film. I think it's just a while magical... it almost feels like you're at a big party in India, where you're singing, you're dancing, you're laughing, you're crying, you feel like you're at a wedding because our films invariably cover all emotions.
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From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.
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Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.
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The business of writing a novel is a long, meandering road into the self, into the imagination. And it's a road the writer travels alone.
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I was never bored because I always had a book. So I had a doorway into another world or another universe. It was great.
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I would rather be working than be on vacation. Always.
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Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.
