Tom Bodett Quotes

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

Tom Bodett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 23, 1955

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In my family, as in all dysfunctional families, instead of parents who act as strong and nurturing role models for their children, you get these needy people who use their children. I was the kid who tried to take on the marriage.

John Bradshaw

FamilyMarriageChildrenParentsYou

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

John Hurt

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I know that a lot of my life is spent thinking about crisps and eating crisps and hating myself for eating crisps. It's just not worth it. Or it wouldn't be if crisps weren't so delicious.

Miriam Margolyes

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My first memory in life was my last visit to Warm Springs.

Mitch McConnell

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You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and you don't have the business structure in place, everything will flop.

Coy Bowles

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One thing we're doing with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, the nonprofit I direct, is providing financial support to journalists who were formerly middle-class.

Alissa Quart

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Sexy is kind of like an aura around someone.

Shane West

SexySomeoneKindAuraLikeAround

I enjoy doing physical comedy.

Scott Adsit

ComedyDoingEnjoyPhysical

When you're underwater with goggles on, a couple of your senses are taken away, and it becomes this purely visual thing. It's just you and yourself.

Mark Foster

YourselfYouUnderwaterVisualJust

I steer clear of any novel that gets billed as a 'meditation.'

Maria Semple

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You could run harder, longer. If the workout was four 200s really, really fast, they wouldn't seem as hard as before. You could cut the rest down from five minutes to three. That's a big difference.

Kelli White

RestYouDownFastThreeRun

I actually started singing in church when I was about five years old. I remember looking at the choirs and just hearing all of those great big beautiful voices. And there was this one woman who could just wail. And I remember trying to sing like her when I was like going home.

Kelly Rowland

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