Bob Goff Quotes
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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Everybody loves a villain - let's face it.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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I believe in the future, and to be a good investor, you have to believe in the future.
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I'm not a skinny girl. I push it. I'm at the limit of chubbiness at all times, but I'm happy at all times.
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I do not diminish the incredible symbolic importance of a black man getting elected president. But my euphoria was a smart guy getting elected president. Maybe for the first time in my lifetime we had elected one of the thousand smartest Americans president.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
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I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
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I think the most important thing we as writers can do is figure out how we define what success will mean to us and focus on that.
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I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
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We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.
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I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas.
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There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state of longing, a hunger for life to begin that from this distance seems like happiness.
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Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.
