Bruce Robinson Quotes
If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
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I grew up playing on unprepared surfaces where your wicket depended on quickly adapting to the bounce. As a kid, I could never differentiate off-spin from leg-spin. All I looked to do was to try to hit the ball before it pitched.
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Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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We who grew up with 'drop and cover' drills know all too well what wonders science can bring us, and we like to see the guy in the white lab coat suffer a little. Or a lot.
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My wife and I have a tradition of popcorn and videos with our kids on Friday evenings.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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Yes, I did shatter my leg, and it really changed my life, in a way. It wasn't much fun, but it did open me up, and as we all know intuitively, adversity can develop resources.
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I always want to go back and do stand-up; I like the freedom.
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I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.
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Every weekend, I'm on the highway to Antwerp. I need to be there, to have the calm. It's a whole different life: I jump on my bike, and it's so small, I can be anywhere in a minute. I like to be at home when there's free time because when you're at a big company, you're constantly surrounded by 30 people.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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I never got down with conveying a larger-than-life vibe.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
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For me working on the marriage and not making the easy choice of cheating was something that I could not do.
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A whole woman will always attract a whole man. And when they touch, they will fuse to create a whole marriage. Ultimately, when the time is right, they will produce whole children.
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Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
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If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
