R.A. The Rugged Man (Richard Andrew Thorburn) Quotes
People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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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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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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In life, so many things are taken for granted, but one thing I can honestly say is that I took every day, enjoyed the game of putting on that uniform and playing the great game of baseball.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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I think when people talk about improvising it turns into this silly thing like, "Oh there's like a hula hoop there and I'm like 'Oh what's going on here? Is this a really big ring?'"
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Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.
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I'm just part of a tradition of people who aren't pleased. I would never think anyone else who has the same attitude was getting it from me. I'd just think they're... sensible.
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L.A. is full of screenwriters. I don't know why. On many levels, it's such a thankless occupation.
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People say I'm a disgrace to the human race. I love overweight women when they sit on my face.
