Bruce Robinson Quotes
I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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Accept loss forever.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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My mom has every issue of 'Billboard' I've ever been in.
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Only when I came to America did I think of myself as British.
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Life is God's art.
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I'm definitely post-something.
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The Master persistently warned against the attempt to encompass Reality in a concept or a name. A scholar in mysticism once asked, 'When you speak of BEING, sir, is it eternal, transcendent being you speak of, or transient, contingent being?' The Master closed his eyes in thought. Then he opened them, put on his most disarming expression, and said, 'Yes!'
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I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
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I have very little experience with dating websites. My feeling toward dating websites is what most people's is: If it works, great. If you're serious and legitimate about it and know what you're looking for, then from what I hear, it's definitely effective.
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We don't have enough people going into those fields and there is a high burnout rate in some health care professions, so it is very important that we get more people into the pipeline right now.
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I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
