Spider Robinson Quotes
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
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I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.
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The day you decide to pursue your dreams, don't forget that this is a game you don't enter to compete, but to win. And there will always be someone booing you in the stands, and everything you accomplish could be jeered and hissed at. This is a game between two that you have to win for the people who came to watch you be triumphant.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.
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No, we have not destroyed it. Let it sit. We cannot change its fate.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.
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I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
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You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.
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I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.
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The freedom to make a fortune on the stock exchange has been made to sound more alluring than freedom of speech.
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Why should I crowd the world with my opinions? Live and let live. That's it. Let people have their own opinions, and you just keep yours to yourself. There are too many opinions - some unnecessary, some great, some ridiculously stupid - so I think I rather not say anything and keep my opinions to myself.
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I always wonder: the images that hit your brain when you're young are so significant, because there's not that much information in your brain. As you get older, things just bounce off. I can remember these minute details of stupid TV shows from the '70s, and I can't remember a book I read yesterday.
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Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
