"It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years."

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Robert Orben

#Years Quotes #Wife Quotes #Awful Quotes

“If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.”
“I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it.”

Source : "If Comedy Central’s ‘Idiotsitter’ is Half as Funny As Talking to Its Creators, It Could Be the Funniest Show on TV". Interview with Liz Shannon Miller, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2016.
“You remember when you were maybe five years old and you went out in the morning and you looked at the day - and it was a very, very beautiful day. You looked at flowers and they were very beautiful flowers. Twenty-five years later, you get up in the morning, you take a look at the flowers - they are wilted. The day isn't a happy day. Well, what's changed? You know they are the same flowers, it's the same world. Something must have changed. Well, probably it was you.”
“If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.”
“My mother said, Don't worry abot what people think now. Think about whether your children and grandchildren will think you've done well.”
“Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude.”
“If you do not learn to deny yourself, you can make no progress in perfection.”

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