Bobby Burgess Quotes

The only things I like are either illegal or they make me fat.

Bobby Burgess

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• Size matters in fiction, but so does lack of size. Everything else being equal, fat novels tend to be perceived as serious, very thin ones as more honest, more real. Writers address these age-old expectations by filling their big books with philosophy and cramming their little ones with feeling.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Real
  • Age
  • Feeling

• There isn't a country I ain't touch in Africa. I just came back from South of France, I toured China, Japan, wherever you name, 60,000 people come out to see Fat Joe.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Country
  • Name

• Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Me
  • Mouth
  • Fat

• If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
  • You
  • Fat

• My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Funny
  • English
  • Voice

• I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a fat kid, always a fat kid. Because you always think that you just look a little bit wrong or a little bit different from everyone else. And I still sort of have that.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Different
  • Know
  • Desire

• I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our backs or that we're fat. You read one line in a magazine and it sends you into a tailspin.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Tragedy
  • Insecurity
  • Hilarious

• Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • May
  • Words

• The actual getting into the gym and working out process was easier, but the eating was harder. I had to eat every two hours. At one point, my trainer said, 'Put anything in your mouth. Go to McDonald's, get the biggest shake possible. I just need to get calories in you.' Because my body fat at the time was only, like, 7.5%.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Time
  • Gym
  • Eating

• Fat Joe ain't out here trying to battle-rap everybody in the world. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Fat Joe
  • World
  • Trying
  • Rap

• I was born fat and have always been, which was just fine and even healthy and cute until I turned ten or so. Puberty hit like a hurricane and brought a new set of rules. All of a sudden it was my fault I was chubby.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Healthy
  • Cute
  • Fault

• If it's illegal to rock and roll, then throw my ass in jail.

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Rock And Roll
  • Jail
  • Illegal

• If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!

  

  Kurt Cobain Nirvana
  • Rock And Roll
  • Jail
  • Illegal

• There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • World
  • Book
  • Aliens

• I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

  

  Sean Durkin
  • Fat
  • Rewrite

• Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Life
  • Country
  • Moving

• It's illegal to be a terrorist in the United States.

  

  Allan Nairn
  • Terrorist
  • Illegal

• My love is inside me where my fat was.

  

  Blake Butler
  • Inside
  • Fat
  • My Love

• A few fat files are better than a lot of thin ones.

  

  Ed Bliss
  • Better
  • Fat
  • Files

• Never sound pompous. You always sound noble, noble. Absolute character of music is nobility. Even popular music can be noble, you see. If it's not noble, then it's not very good... Music is an art of emotion, of nobility, of dignity, of greatness, of love, of tenderness. All that must be brought out in music but never a show of pompousness.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Good
  • Music
  • Art

• Everything in the film [Tickling], which was vetted by lawyers, is perfectly legal. I'm not losing any sleep over what I did.

  

  David Farrier
  • Sleep
  • Film
  • Legal

• The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.

  

  H. W. Brands
  • World
  • Success
  • Force

• The only things I like are either illegal or they make me fat.

  

  Bobby Burgess
  • Fat
  • Illegal