James Bobin Quotes
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I couldn't stand back and watch the strong economy that my father envisioned go to ruins.
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I have my dad's shape. No booty.
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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It was always my dream to write for a living.
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I feel like I just have such the blood and bones of a New Yorker that I can almost imagine better, like, giving up the fight and not being able to afford the city and going out West, keeping a small place here, and then when I'm like 80, coming back here, living on the park and going to the theater.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.
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I write novels and other things.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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Really, the '70s and '80s were a blur.
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I don't feel that normal anymore because I get recognised, even when I'm just trying to have fun or going to get ice cream with my friends.
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Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.
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At the end of our lives, we will not be judged by the highest public office we attained in our lifetime, if that were true the current president George W. Bush would hold as much esteem as Franklin Roosevelt in our country, and Nelson Mandela in his. That cannot be the case. Rather, we will each be judged by the mark we've left on others.
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You have to deal with the fashion egos. You know, there is a lot. It shouldn't be treated that seriously because fashion is only making dresses to make women look beautiful. We're not inventing anything new.
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The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.
