Robert Webb Quotes
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
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I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown.
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.
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Beauty is first and foremost an emotion.
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When an actor decides to play a character, he must exude some sort of charisma and look relatable, even if he is playing the role of a really unattractive person.
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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
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At the end of the day, I do think I'm happiest doing comedy. I love it. I know that I can do other things. I love drama as well.
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The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.
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I think jokes can actually go to places that drama can't.
