Stephen Tobolowsky (Stephen Harold Tobolowsky) Quotes
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California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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I thought I knew how to work out before I immersed myself into boxing. I now know what an extreme workout really is.
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Peacemaking and democratic state-building require blood and magic.
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Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.
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I have an obsession with hot sauce. I love Cholula. I put Cholula on everything.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
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There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.
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Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.
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You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.
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If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.
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Give your clients the earliest delivery consistent with quality - whatever the inconvenience to us.
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I don't want to leave anything offstage.
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As a writer, I find that a good way of evolving a character is through an examination of his or her defining relationships - and what's more defining than a relationship with someone you love?
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A creative writer must study carefully the works of his rivals, including the Almighty. He must possess the inborn capacity not only of recombining but of re-creating the given world. In order to do this adequately, avoiding duplication of labor, the artist should know the given world.
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How could one comfort a disturbed person? He is already assailed with doubts about his faith. He would have to despair with such a doctrine. Rather one must seek to convince him that the Savior is there for him, has already forgiven him, and has already accepted him. As soon as one makes faith even in the least a requirement for justification, one takes from such a person all the comfort of the Gospel.
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When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.
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If you are only getting two takes and you are on a crazy set where there is a lot of noise and distractions and it is hard to focus - that is frustrating. But I don't mind two takes if there is a healthy respect with the work going on with the actors.
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Comfort is the enemy of the artist.
