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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The best way to get anybody's attention is dinner. I have good kitchen skills and good grocery shopping skills.
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The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law. Therefore if a law is unjust, and if the Judge judges according to the law, that is justice, even if it is not just.
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Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
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Everyone who is grieved at anything, or discontented, is like a pig for sacrifice, kicking and squealing. Like a dove for sacrifice is he who laments in silence. Our one distinction is that it is given to us to consent, if we will, to the necessity imposed upon us.
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The current diversity visa program does a disservice to our immigration policy and to those immigrants who have moved through the more traditional process that allows them to lawfully reside in this country.
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Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.