Bob Buford Quotes
God’s desire is for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with.
Quotes to Explore
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
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How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
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Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
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I just take every day on faith.
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With a larger wheel, you have more contact with the ground, so you have better traction whether you're braking or cornering or any of that stuff. Also, with bigger wheels, once you get them up to speed, they roll faster.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.
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God’s desire is for you to serve him just by being who you are, by using what he gave you to work with.
