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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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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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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Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Smaller groups of people can establish trusting relationships.
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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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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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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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I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.
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When I was 14, during Kim Il-sung's funeral, I wondered, 'How could a god die?'
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I think that's what makes characters interesting - when you paint a person into a corner, and you see what they do to get out of that corner. It's what makes drama drama.
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I mean, I wasn't stupid. I knew we'd make money and sell a lot of Dune books.
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Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid.
