Bob Thaves Quotes
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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Filmmaking is a huge privilege; it's not brain surgery. It's art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process, and it is an enjoyable experience for me.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I want to stay active. I want to find that mind-body connection every single day, and I want other people to have that because we spend our lives on our phones, at our desks. We're not thinking about our bodies and the mental connections we should be having, and those moments help us push through to live our best life.
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A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is-- blind or not-- a good world to live in, a promising universe.
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Live joyfully, without desire.
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Jerry Seinfeld made a puddle, I stepped in it, and wonderful things happened.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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I don't know if I can live on my income or not - the government won't let me try it.
