Bob Goff Quotes
It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
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Renoir is a great success on the Salon; I think he is 'launched'. All the better! It's a very hard life, being poor.
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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How does it become a man to behave toward this American government today? I answered that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
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'If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,' said Jefferson, 'it expects what never was and never will be.'
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Religion theme aside, most of the time I'm in some sort of comedy and I'm a straight man and it's really just, let's wind this guy up and see him explode.
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It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
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I like the idea of having a superordinary life.
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History is the life of nations and of humanity. To seize and put into words, to describe directly the life of humanity or even of a single nation, appears impossible.
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It's easy to confuse a lot of activity with a purposeful life. Do what lasts; let the rest fall away.
