Top 87 Rob Thomas Quotes
#1. So much of what I do ... is coming up with new characters and trying to invent voices for them, and to have people fully fleshed out in my head and to know who can say what in the scene and who these characters are ... I love it.
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#2. Their mutual misanthropy had sealed the deal.
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#3. But sometimes the lies we let ourselves believe are for our own good.
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#4. How hard do you think it'd be to hack into the database of a major research university?"
Mac hesitated. "Since you're asking me on a cell phone, in front of God and the NSA- impossible.
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#5. Huh. Veronica Mars, speechless. I'll have to write this one in my feelings journal.
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#6. Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.
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#7. There weren't many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.
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#8. Music is a big machine that would go on with or without me.
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#9. I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.
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#10. I asked for a pony. And year after year I'm disappointed.
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#11. When is the answer ever less cheese?
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#12. Not that I like having my direst preconceptions about humanity confirmed or anything. But I was right.
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#13. Loose lips sink ships, Mr. Kiss and Tell.
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#14. Sometimes lightning struck twice; sometimes, one person got more than their share of suffering.
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#15. Thank goodness for the U.S. Navy. I can at least put off telling Logan. The last thing I need is for my boyfriend to pick a fight with an international crime syndicate.
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#16. It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.
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#18. I think there are people, and I do not mean this to be disparaging, there are people like Jay Mohr and Jeremy Piven where they just give you that vibe, 'This guy's going to play someone a little venal.'
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#19. Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him.
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#20. Let it go. Let it roll right off your shoulder. Don't you know the hardest part is over?
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#21. People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show ... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off.
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#22. On 'Dawson's Creek,' those kids were supposed to be outsider kids - you know, wrong-side-of-the-track kids, weirdo kids. And I just felt like there's no universe out there where Katie Holmes isn't the prom queen, hottest girl in school.
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#23. This is why you shouldn't hire your friends. It's all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.
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#24. One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year.
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#25. Your executives liking your show makes all the difference in the world. It's the difference between happiness and misery.
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#26. The hazard of living in a place where you had so much history
so much pain and so much rage and so much love
was that every item could turn on you in a flash.
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#27. I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell; I know right now you can't tell; But stay a while and maybe then you'll see; A different side of me
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#28. What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.
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#29. Who's a big fierce monster dog? Who's a bloodthirsty hound from Hell? It's you. Yes it is.
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#30. Some things you don't need until they leave you, they're the things that you miss
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#31. Conan Doyle deluded a century of readers into thinking we're all deductive geniuses.
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#32. In Neptune, the past was always grabbing at your ankles, trying to pull you back.
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#33. I still don't think I've ever read a Nancy Drew book; I probably read three or four 'Hardy Boys' books when I was 10, 11, 12, and I didn't love them at the time. Even then, they felt dated to me, like the word chum - 'my chum and I.' However, the 'Encyclopedia Brown' books, I read all of them.
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#34. I couldn't love a movie much more than 'Dazed and Confused.' I would argue that 'Dazed and Confused: The Series' would have been very much like 'Freaks and Geeks.' And that died a painful death because it was too good.
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#35. ... Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now ...
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#36. I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
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#37. If she's a prostitute, it's not rape so much as shoplifting, right?
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#38. Everyone's trusting in their hearts, like their heart don't lie
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#39. I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.
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#40. We certainly strive for reality in terms of asking our audience to believe the motivations, reactions, and behavior of our characters, but do I know when Veronica has time to do her homework? Not really.
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#41. Oh, I guess you wouldn't know, since you left the actual investigating for me to do. Well, buckle up, my friend, because I'm about to hand you actual clues to an actual crime, wrapped in a bow.
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#42. We're all looking for something, something to be.
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#43. Chatty, defensive, observant. My new favorite witness.
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#44. My hope is that I hit it big with something, and then I'll have enough of a cushion to carve out time to write a book. That would be my passion project.
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#45. For one ridiculous moment she considered changing into something sexier - at least from the waist up, as that was all he'd see on his camera - but decided not to bother. Logan had fallen in love with her in striped T-shirts and jeans. There was no need to mess with a winning formula.
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#46. In Vegas, the veneer of glamor was bright but thin. You didn't have to look that hard to see the darker realities that lurked beneath the surface.
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#47. I would like it to be certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
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#48. Before 'Veronica Mars,' I was not, and probably am still not, much of a crime reader. My mom left out a copy of 'Helter Skelter' when I was 10, and I secretly read it, and then I spent all my teenage years afraid of hippies. I kept away from crime books for, like, ten years.
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#49. Let your clarity define you, in the end, we will only just remember how it feels.
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#50. Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.
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#51. The world domination plan goal is that I would love Veronica Mars to become a brand like Sherlock Holmes is a brand, like Nancy Drew, in a way, is a brand. When people start listing who are the great fictional detectives, I want Veronica Mars to make that list. That would be the dream scenario.
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#52. Veronica's hands wouldn't stop shaking. She held the revolver straight out from her body and breathed slowly, deeply, the hot-metal smell stinging her nostrils. She tried to relax her shoulders.
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#53. 'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.
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#54. The words hit, a sucker punch that first inspired pain, then a powerful impulse to strike back.
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#55. The brilliance of Adam Scott is that he is so damn funny in a straight man role.
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#56. I also drink Scotch. But I'm not picky. I'll take the victory Scotch, or the Scotch of defeat. Or the rotgut swill.
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#57. When we lose faith in our officers of the law, it harms all of as. It cripples our criminal justice system. It threatens the most vulnerable parts of our community. It allows money and power to subvert justice.
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#58. Each of us has a short ride on this earth and as long as we stay in our lane, and don't affect someone else's ride, we should be allowed to drive as we see fit.
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#59. I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.
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#60. I've had the pleasure of working closely with Marc Von Em as a singer, but when I heard his original stuff, I asked him to open up a 10,000 seat gig. Just him, his guitar, and his songs. He killed it!
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#61. Veronica eased the car forward, narrowly missing two girls who stopped in the middle of the street to light each other's cigarettes. They both held up their middle fingers in perfect unison. Veronica cheerfully flipped them off in return, then took a right toward Neptune's Warehouse District.
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#62. Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.
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#64. I could not finance a movie on my own. Frankly, I could not even afford to take a year off. I, like most people in America, need to keep making money.
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#65. It's hard to look the people you love in the face when they've seen you fuck up everything you touch. Sometimes, it's easier to rebuild your life if you're with someone who's been as low as you've been.
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#66. She already knew that he'd decided to leave - knew before he opened his mouth to speak. But for one last minute, she could pretend that he was hers to keep. For one last minute, she held him, and let him hold her.
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#67. Anyone who'd spent a childhood waiting for the other foot - or the other fist - to fall knew how to sense danger.
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#68. No doubt, what with all that graft and corruption filling your schedule.
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#69. She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.
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#70. I want to be happy going to work. I want to do a show I'm proud of.
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#71. Trying to convince Warner Bros. to make a $30 million 'Veronica Mars' movie just wasn't going to happen, for understandable reasons.
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#72. In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.
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#73. His image shifted jerkily once, twice. She caught the sound of his voice deconstructed into halting and meaningless syllables. And then the window went dark.
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#74. Before Twitter or Facebook, all the fandom that I knew about was anecdotal.
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#75. Excuse me for troubling your capraesque lives with this first-ever note of moral unclarity.
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#76. It's the heart that really matters in the end.
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#77. She didn't want to be in their club. Didn't want to learn how to be apart from the one person she longed to see every day.
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#78. Sure, there were a few more duct-taped tears in the vinyl seats, a few new dings in the fiberglass surfboards lining the walls, but the bacon was still crisp and pancakes were available twenty-four hours a day, the way the good Lord intended.
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#79. You couldn't think of a single thing to do for her? Not with all your supposed ingenuity, your willingness to see the rules as profoundly optional?
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#80. Having gotten TV shows on the air, that's so much less work that trying to get the 'Veronica Mars' movie made.
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#81. Bursting into flame would definitely blow my cover.
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#82. Her strategy for honoring the dead had always been to take action - solve the mystery, punish the criminal. But what did you do when there was no one to punish? When there were no answers to find? How do you assimilate that kind of loss without losing your mind?
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#83. The twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming.
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#84. Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.
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#85. She and her mom used to visit him on lunch breaks and, in later years, she did her homework in an empty interrogation room while eavesdropping on the dispatch.
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#86. Nothing was worthless. Not if you knew who needed it. Not if you knew how to salvage it.
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#87. Congratulations, Veronica. You just ordered your first call girl.
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