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1. "I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting." ~ Bob Balaban
2. "I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area." ~ Bob Balaban
3. "If anyone would have been paying serious attention to my puppet shows, I would have been sent to therapy very young." ~ Bob Balaban
4. "Yes I try to do everything I can not to fail hideously." ~ Bob Balaban
5. "And I think being a good director is being able to be completely tyrannical and you?ve got to be an absolute dictator while at the same time, you have to listen and see everything because it can all change on a dime." ~ Bob Balaban
6. "I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago." ~ Bob Balaban
7. "But obviously as television began, it so undercut movies that he was trying to think of a way to combine seeing these special things, and the fact that people were just captivated by the magic box." ~ Bob Balaban
8. "I have a 92 year old father whose doing beautifully who lives in Chicago and a sister and a nephew and a niece and I love coming back and try to do so fairly often." ~ Bob Balaban
9. "I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location." ~ Bob Balaban
10. "I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it." ~ Bob Balaban
11. "I think some of the special effects in Close Encounters hold up better than the new more expensive special effects is because they were better actually." ~ Bob Balaban
12. "I was very much in my room with my marionette stage, you know, creating these incredibly boring things that I felt were so fascinating, and forcing my relatives to come, and charging money for them to see my little productions." ~ Bob Balaban
13. "I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening." ~ Bob Balaban
14. "I've directed a fair amount of television series - so I'm always trying to learn new things. One episode was all hand-held and I'm trying to get better at when you should do things and when you should just shut up and watch what the people are saying." ~ Bob Balaban
15. "Maybe I was 7 - I probably am exaggerating a little - and immediately was plunged into the fact that there was an official place to put your fantasies. Up until then I didn't know what I would do with them all. It was very exciting for me, and I began very, very early on." ~ Bob Balaban
16. "My dad was the baby. When he was born they were already successful. They sent him to business school - he probably would have loved to have been a poet or a writer or something, and he was very creative." ~ Bob Balaban
17. "Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old - I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays." ~ Bob Balaban
18. "My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God." ~ Bob Balaban
19. "God, I'd love to do a big commercial movie that made a lot of money and whose plot was interesting too." ~ Bob Balaban

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Naša priroda priznaje da su naše naklonosti i antipatije cudne. Ima ljudi pred kojima se potajno zgrozimo, koje nastojimo izbjeci, iako nam razum potvrduje da su to dobri ljudi.Ima drugih, sa ocitim greškama, kraj kojih sretno živimo, kao da nam zrak oko njih godi."
Author: Charlotte Brontë

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