Davy Rothbart Quotes
My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.
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My father was 40 when he had me, so he was more a grandparent than a parent.
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Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
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Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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That's sort of like asking a parent who their favorite child is. It's very hard to determine. Sometimes I'll get feedback from somebody who liked this part of the show. Others like another part of the show.
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'Paper Planes' was an accident. It wasn't a song we made for the masses. It took two years to get popular, and there were many fights about censoring the gunshot sounds.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Now, I just made an animated movie a few years ago, 'The Tale of Desperaux', and that had twelve hundred shots in it. Twelve hundred CG shots is a pretty big plan.
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
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I've been auditioning since I was 7 years old.
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Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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My mom was a single parent.
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I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
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My parents banned nothing, though the Christian fundamentalists in my tribe held book-and-record burnings every now and again. So, yes, fundamentalist assholes can also be brown-skinned.
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In the East — in Greece and Syria and Egypt — the Romans had conquered countries which had ancient and splendid traditions, and were more civilized than their conquerors.
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If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.
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People used to call me for donations, and I couldn't relate to that because I have spent most of my life trying to support myself.
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My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.
