Quote by Robert Benchley
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing,

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldnt give it up because by that time I was too famous. – Robert Benchley

Other quotes by Robert Benchley

The naturalistic literature of this country has reached such a state that no family of characters is considered true to life which does not include at least two hypochondriacs, one sadist, and one old man who spills food down the front of his vest. – Robert Benchley

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Books
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I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of lifes sensational pleasures. – Robert Benchley

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Pleasure
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One of the chief duties of the fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him. This department of the game has been allowed to run down fearfully. – Robert Benchley

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Baseball
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There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone. – Tom Wolfe

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famous

I dont want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when Im 70. – Pharrell Williams

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famous

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror. – Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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famous

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. Hes just famous for his sound. – David Lee Roth

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famous

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Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that youre not and thats what you always reach for in a song. – Leonard Cohen

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Women

Its so amazing, standing on the corner -this happened in Washington, D.C. – and somebody comes by in a Cadillac and you hear Manic Monday on the radio, and you dont even know this person, and theyre listening to it and singing along with it. Wow! Blows your mind. – Debbi Peterson

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amazing

Ive never been bashful to say that Im not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, its all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States. – Danica Patrick

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Dreams

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. – George Bernard Shaw

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Dancing