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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The gods smile on us, my son, or so it is written. It's a wonder they don't laugh aloud.
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I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.
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I am a scholar of life. Every night before I go to sleep, I analyze every detail of what I did that day. I evaluate things and people, which helps me avoid mistakes.
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I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
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I'm going to tell Anthony he's playing Davis every night. He played very well.
