James Bobin Quotes
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Over the years, the most ponderous problem for women has been that men think that men and women are very different. Another of our massive problems is that women also think that men and women are very different.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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I'm a strong fighter, I'm a fighter who can adapt to my surroundings.
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Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.
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I couldn't care less about what anybody else has to say.
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While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
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I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
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If you have a surreal life like I do, you've got to have fun along the way.
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However novel it may appear, I shall venture the assertion, that, until women assume the place in society which good sense and good feeling alike assign to them, human improvement must advance but feebly.
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I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
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When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.
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I loved Robert Altman, so gentle yet naughty! And Julian Fellowes writes so beautifully.
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One reason I do the live shows - and the monthly speeches at public radio stations - is to remind myself that people hear the show, that it has an audience, that it exists in the world. It's so easy to forget that.
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In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.
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'My clever baton holds your unnatural sorcery in abeyance.'
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Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.
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The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
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takes a drag of his cigarette Mmmm mmmm, tastes like steak and potatoes doesn't it? Mmmm.
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We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty.
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'Muppets' is incredibly analog, 'Alice' is very digital.
