Spider Robinson Quotes
Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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Casting directors now just see me as the hard-core sniper or prison guard.
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Me in my music and onstage – that's me without any fears of judgement; that's me when I'm shining.
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It all depended on the cut. Some of them were really on the ship. Some were really on the set. Like if they had the stars for a week, the stars coming off, that was usually on the set, except if we were on location for that particular show.
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The tutor gave us our work, and if we had trouble, she'd help us on it, but we were really only working on the stuff that our school gave us - well, I was, because I go to a public school.
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Normally, I love to go to the movies and when I see a character portrayed by different actors at different ages, it kind of pops a little bit for me. It brings me out of the movie experience. Now we have the technology to cure that.
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I'm not a girl anymore.
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Being 90 is not simple, but it's interesting, very interesting. Before I was 90, I could walk, I could see well, I could hear terrific, and now, I can't hear or see or walk.
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There's no such thing as an absolute openness. Openness is relative, I think, in all societies.
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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
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Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.
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In the school of mortality, we experience tenderness, love, kindness, happiness, sorrow, disappointment, pain, and even the challenges of physical limitations in ways that prepare us for eternity.
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Life actually is this mystery and gift. And every moment of it can be full of real radical joy and wakefulness. And for some reason in our most difficult times, we have the best chance to wake up. Many people will tell you that their divorce or illness or loss of job was the wake up call.
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Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.
