Bobby Riggs Quotes
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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It seems to many of us that if we are to avoid the eventual catastrophic world conflict, we must strengthen the United Nations as a first step toward a world government patterned after our own government with a legislature, executive and judiciary, and police to enforce its international laws and keep the peace.
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It takes a lot of dedication to quit smoking, and whether you give up for good on your first try or have to give it a couple of tries - just keep swinging at it and you will succeed.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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I love Feist. I love Francoise Hardy. She was a French singer-songwriter in the '60s who was pretty huge. I think I'm drawn to her sincerity. I love Fiona Apple, too - she's quirky and really honest in her lyrics.
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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A lovely lady, garmented in light From her own beauty.
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To have friends who will always take you to higher ground is an incalculable blessing.
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I support Donald Trump, but I also support abortion and a women's right to choice, what to do with their body.
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Young men need to show women the respect they deserve and recognize sexual assault and to do their part to stop it.
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Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.
