Spider Robinson Quotes

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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.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Thinking
  • Learning
  • Looking

• I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Me
  • Loved
  • Realize

• 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.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Book
  • Voice
  • Identity

• 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.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Up
  • Music
  • Best

• 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.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • School
  • Learn

• 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.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Age
  • Lost
  • Myself

• Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Human
  • Difficult
  • Being

• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Me
  • Pen
  • Hen

• Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Reason
  • Like
  • Tough

• You can only do so much theatre.

  

  Victor Garber
  • You
  • Theatre
  • Only

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Woman
  • Film
  • Inspired

• 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.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Government
  • Following
  • Even

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Team
  • Never
  • Someone

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• No education is worth having that does not teach the lesson of concentration on a task, however unattractive. These lessons, if not learnt early, will be learnt, if at all, with pain and grief in later life.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Life
  • Education
  • Pain

• We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

  

  Kelsang Gyatso
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• I was hoping to attend the School of Visual Arts and had a portfolio built up.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • Up
  • School

• Much of my adult life has been spent fighting for equal opportunity, and the idea that I would support limiting opportunity for any segment of society, particularly women, is antithetical to who I am and what I have done.

  

  Paul Tudor Jones
  • Life
  • Women
  • Done

• Reconquer the streets, the markets – the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not give up. With torches and roses, we deliver this message to the world: We do not let fear break us. And we do not let the fear of fear silence us.

  

  Jens Stoltenberg
  • Up
  • World
  • Fear

• We didn't have any simulators. We had to do it on the track all the time. Now they've got simulators for everything. And, if they have an accident or go off, then you just press a button, re-set, and away you go again.

  

  Nigel Mansell
  • Track
  • Accident
  • Simulators

• Dreams should be forgotten when we wake. Or one day we will find ourselves unable to sleep.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Dream
  • Sleep