Bob Goff Quotes
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I know every politician spins the truth a little.
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You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.
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In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.
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If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.
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I had given up on being beautiful. But I thought I could kind of inspire boys to write songs about me. So I became a music journalist at the age of 16.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.
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Its easy to have kids, people try to scare you into thinking "oh its hard to have kids" Its not. I have two, and I have no idea where they are right now. Kids are adorable, someone will always take care of them.
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Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you.
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Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.
