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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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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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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There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
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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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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
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I love working on films and I'd love to do some interesting work, but if somebody asked me, 'Would you like 'Human Target' to continue to be picked up?' The answer is 'Absolutely!' I love working on this show. I love playing Guerrero. I love seeing where it's going.
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I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.
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I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did.
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I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.
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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
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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.
