Spider Robinson Quotes
Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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I prefer to connect with fans from the stage. Like, I don't have a Twitter page, or anything like that. So for me, that's what the show is about. For me - is a way to interact with fans; being up onstage and showing them, through music - which is all I really know - the best way to say thank you.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
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The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explore and, in general, they get more complicated, so you get to bring all your crazy life experience to the table.
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You can only do so much theatre.
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Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds.
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Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.
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That's one of the magical things about the Olympics, Team GB will have someone challenging in a sport that we've never watched and all of a sudden it'll be the biggest thing ever.
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When Ronald Reagan was elected I was on a bus traveling with a band in France. I wrote a little arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner in a minor key.
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I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.
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If there is something hauntingly beautiful or impressive in your dream, just honor it, respect it, recall it, sense it with your body. More will come.
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My parents are definitely my biggest role models.
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The master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao.
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Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.
