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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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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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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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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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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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'm not too picky about guitars. I love to collect them, mostly oddballs, but I'm not married to any brand or model. Whatever guitar has the best character for the song is the one I want to use, because if you've got a style, you're going to sound like yourself no matter what guitar you play.
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Having one's image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you've let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.
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I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot.
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Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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I think a man can have two, maybe three, affairs while he is married. But three is the absolute maximum. After that, you're cheating.
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Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
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I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of, So tell me now and I won't ask again, Will you still love me tomorrow?
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I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing.
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I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.
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I love bands like Queen, Zeppelin, The Beatles.
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My parents have seen their ups-and-downs but are still married after 40 years, so that's something.
