James Bobin Quotes
I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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I know what I want, I want things for myself, but I think the key to life is somebody to love, something to do and something to look forward to. I don't think it's complicated.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I'd like to do a really masculine film.
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Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
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Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need to do. I needed to put together two fantasy teams this weekend because that's something I enjoy, but I did stop playing Nintendo Wii for hours on end.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.
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Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorced. When the bad starts outweighing the good on a consistent basis, you may feel that taking the next step is appropriate. It is a very personal decision and most likely should be arrived upon with the help of some kind of counseling or support.
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Trust me. Sometimes God comes down and puts his hand on you if you're too big in your thoughts.
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Whatever luck I had, I made. I was never a natural athlete, but I paid my dues in sweat and concentration and took the time necessary to learn karate and become world champion.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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I'm like, 'What world am I living in?' Aren't movies made to have something to say? Why make a movie if you don't have something to say? What are you doing it for? Are you doing it because you want to make a lot of money?
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I'm not a huge fan of research, but sometimes you get an idea, and then you realize you don't know anything.
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I think, as a director, it's always worth pushing yourself and finding out new areas and exploring new ways to tell story.
