Bobby Wallace Quotes
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Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
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I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it didn't speak to my experience. I think that was because I hadn't yet found the right poems to invite me in.
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Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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Push-ups, sit-ups, and a strict diet of raisins. That's my plan.
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And there is a beautiful thing which is wonderful, to look like a woman, not a green bean.
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Somewhere down the line, I realised that dairy products were giving me acidity, so now I am a vegan.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
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I really don't want you to think of Qatar as a hydrocarbon country alone. We know that hydrocarbons will come and go. But education will stay. It is the most important thing for us.
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I found myself sort of becoming a character actor, though I don't know if that would be my natural makeup.
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I ran track for my school. I played football, but I didn't play for my high school; I played for a little league team.
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I'm not very materialistic - I don't have a whole lot of stuff. But I do always like a pair of really weird socks.
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I don't think my father was my mentor.
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There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.
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I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too upsetting for me to write about them. Naturally, I still hope, and wait, wait, wait.
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From the onset of the 'Live-Read' series, we wanted to hit all the major writers and Woody Allen is simply one of the greatest screenwriters of all time. He has ability to match pathos and comedy and drama and then turn it all on a dime. If you're going to make a series based on dialogue, you can't find much better than Woody Allen.
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The lnternet is turning economics inside-out. For example, everybody on the internet now wants stuff for free and there are so many free services available.
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I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to write scripts for television. I wrote for my comedy act. Then I wrote screenplays, and then I started writing New Yorker essays, and then I started writing plays. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the New Yorker essays, but they were comic. I didn't start writing prose, really, until the '90s. In my head, there was a link between everything. One thing led to another.
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If I disliked managing, I liked umpiring even less.
