Bob Thomason Quotes
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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You'd be surprised how addicting high self-esteem is.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
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I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
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I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones.
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I think audiences will always like bad guys who kill for no apparent reason. We just like to hate them.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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Everything has a place and time.
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I had a moment in the Library of Congress among the presidential papers. I opened a folder, and there was an envelope in it. The front of the envelope was facing the table, so I didn't know what was in it. I opened it and out spilled all this hair. I turned the envelop over and it says, 'Clipped from President Garfield's head on his deathbed.'
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To men of other minds my fancy flies,Embosomed in the deep where Holland lies.Methinks her patient sons before me stand,Where the broad ocean leans against the land.
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.
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He has outsoared the shadow of our night; Envy and calumny and hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.
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As an actor, your focus is very finite. All you're worried about is your character and what you have to do, what your goals are in this scene and in this piece of material. Whereas, as the director, everything is your responsibility. I enjoy carrying the load like that and being the responsible party.
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I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.
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I'm not drunk, just a little stoned.
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I'm going to tell Anthony he's playing Davis every night. He played very well.
