Stephen Tobolowsky (Stephen Harold Tobolowsky) Quotes
I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.
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For me to be here tonight, everything had to be perfect. I had to get drafted by Utah, had to play with a point guard like John Stockton, and had to be coached by Jerry Sloan and Frank Layden.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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'Crash' is a movie about the racial tension that still exists in America. A lot of us pretend that we don't have preconceived notions and stereotypical ideals about each other, but we do. And we wanted to create a movie about people whose lives crash into each others' accidentally.
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There are few women in America that don't want to lose 5 pounds, but I refuse to let that thought dominate my life. And there are too many other real problems in the world - real obesity problems and real hunger problems - to worry that much about a few pounds that I'd like to lose.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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Once I dive in, I dive in all the way.
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We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.
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I kind of like being depressed.
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Uninfluenced by others, he never knew he influenced them; he had no idea they liked him.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.
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I don't think it's an incredibly radical premise to try and have sympathy for someone who has made a mistake.
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I think I'm aware of entering my late 30s versus being in my late 20s, when the web was coming out as this new thing. It reminds me of how people used to tell me about my great-grandmother and how they used to gather around a radio listening to soap operas.
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I am on the lookout for smart scripts and stories where my role has weightage.
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I think, in my life, there've been three times I've broken down into tears on a set because I was happy.
