Robert Webb Quotes
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We overvalue the arts in relation to the sciences.
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It's a compulsion. I'm always changing parts of me. Even when I was young, I wanted to change my hair color. I was so determined that I dyed my hair with Kool-Aid.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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Trying to be smarter, work smarter, and just take care of my body more and more.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist.
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
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My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven people or having powdered milk with my cereal. It was so nasty.
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I'm a producer. I'm a musician. And my job is to come in and, you know, put - you know, I treat all of the artists that I work with, like, you know, the way da Vinci was looking at Mona Lisa, you know, there's an interesting backdrop.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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I tried playing the drums, and I could play 'Boys Don't Cry' by The Cure.
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I started a big part of my career in Vegas.
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Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!
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When I was growing up, rock & roll helped give me my sense of identity, but I had to search for it.
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The wonderful thing about Gilda Radner was that she was not a person who disappointed.
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
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I would like to prove that on TV, everyday lives can be as compelling as the life-styles of the rich and famous. Especially lives that we catch at extraordinary moments.
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I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
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I was always the guy who made jokes and ribbed people at parties. After I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts I got sidetracked into clubs and started doing comedy.
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I can't imagine getting bored with comedy or thinking comedy is beneath us suddenly.
