Alex Bogusky Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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I feel that everyone has a right to be insane.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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Writing is not like acting, where you can pull these little stunts that create a particular effect. Words are all it is about, and the way you use words has to be individual and particular to you.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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Men tell me that I've saved their marriages. It costs them a fortune in shoes, but it's cheaper than a divorce. So I'm still useful, you see.
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We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
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I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, 'Oh my God, you're awesome,' and then we start dating.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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America deserves common sense immigration reform that reflects our interests and our values as Americans.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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I don't like things set in stone.
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Reinvent yourself. Repeat.
