Bob Balaban Quotes

My dad was born in Chicago in 1908... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Bob Balaban

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 16, 1945

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I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.

Jim Lee

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Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.

Melanie Fiona

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I believe that if we don't offer legal ways of emigrating to Europe and immigrating within Europe, we will be lost. If those who come - who are, generally speaking, the poor and needy - are no longer able to enter the house of Europe through the front door, they'll keep making their way in through the back windows.

Jean-Claude Juncker

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I always wanted to have 'Bad Boys' on TV. 'Common Law' is reminiscent of my youth.

Michael Ealy

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I am not only lucky to be an actor, but I am lucky to be one of the most privileged actors in the world because I can do all kinds of films and genres and everything.

Stellan Skarsgard

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I'm confident that Senate Republicans will put up a very strong and valiant effort to continue doing what we're united around.

Tom Graves

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The place I begin is with story. If the audience doesn't care about that, then it doesn't matter how amazing the spectacle is. My central philosophy is that people go to the movies to be told a story, not to see stuff blow up.

Jonathan Mostow

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I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.

David Sylvian

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If a public figure tells a whopping lie once in his life, it'll haunt him into his grave. If he lies morning, noon and night, it will become almost impossible to remember any one particular lie.

Bret Stephens

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There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'

Brad Feld

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Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.

Brigitte Bardot

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Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

Phil Schiller

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