Quote by Robert Benchley
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things,

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. – Robert Benchley

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There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. – Robert Benchley

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There are several ways in which to apportion the family income, all of them unsatisfactory. – Robert Benchley

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Its funny that I got to do On the Road because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree. – Garrett Hedlund

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Its funny, in a way the actor is a writer. Its not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one. – Sam Shepard

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The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because Id been up all night inventing the Camcorder. – Al Gore

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With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day. – Kingman Brewster, Jr.

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My dad has sometimes felt that I grew up a little lacking in sufficient eccentricity – in the sense that Im willing to live as an adult in a house with walls that are parallel to each other, that sort of thing. – Jaron Lanier

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Im just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. Thats not to say that theres something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just cant stop watching, like a car crash. – Steve Coogan

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