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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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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So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they've been very helpful.
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Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.
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My high-techness is pretty low-tech. I'm not wildly computer savvy. I'm a record person.
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Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.
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Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.
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What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
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I like situational comedy when people are being completely serious and yet you can find something extremely funny, not jokes.
