Rob Thomas Quotes
I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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God isn't really interested in our batting averages.
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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It is true that the gameplay for 'Orcs&Elves' was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun.
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We should be biased toward action. We are trying to be a nimble and cohesive culture where people can be heard and there is openness and innovation.
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I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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I always just wanted to write and maybe direct. I'm really only interested in that. And yet the business that I'm in has forced me into being a salesman - that's the last thing that 17-year-old me would imagine I'd end up being. I'm uncomfortable trying to sell anything, but that's what you're doing every time you walk into a pitch.
