Robert Ben Garant Quotes

Sometimes when you do a whole script, you hand it off, and it gets rewritten by a bunch of people, and people don't really get that much of a sense of how funny you can be.

Robert Ben Garant

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FunnyPeopleYouSometimesHandGet

My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

John Allison

StyleArtTrustMeWritingGo

I've never had any delusions about being a leading man, and it's not sour grapes to say that in the best films that I've always enjoyed, the cliched leading man type isn't a part of the picture.

John Hawkes

BestManPictureSayNeverAlways

You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and get them then they won't work.

Melinda Gates

WorkBestWomanChildYouVaccines

I think that if something's really good, and it touches that part of their heart that has been untouched, or maybe it has been touched but they never wanted to admit it, I think that when they get back to that, I think that we are still in a place that people enjoy it the way it's supposed to be enjoyed.

Andrae Crouch

GoodHeartPeopleThinkEnjoyBack

A lot of my students are Asian-American, and it has been thrilling to watch them break through the stereotypes into something alive and surprising.

Robert Morgan

AliveStereotypesBreakSomething

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Angela Davis

WorkTimeSurvivePoliticalDesire

If the universe is friendly, then it is indeed aware of us and works to help us. So there are no 'unfortunate accidents,' and everything that happens is orchestrated in an elaborate and complicated manner to be of benefit to us.

Srikumar Rao

UniverseHelpComplicatedEverything

I'm a good whistler. As I was growing up, we had a family whistle, so if we were spread out somewhere, like in a grocery store, and heard the call, everyone came.

Stana Katic

FamilyGoodGrowing UpGrowingOut

In Israel's short history, army commanders and the heads of the intelligence agencies have often advocated the use of force and in many cases showed contempt for the law and human rights. Political leaders have typically been more measured.

Ronen Bergman

HistoryIntelligenceLawPolitical

I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic.

Michelle Fairley

RememberDramaSecretWatchingJust

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone.

Jayson Williams

MePrisonYouStoneKnowUp

Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

Dinaw Mengestu

WorkHappinessWritingAmericaKnow

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