Spider Robinson Quotes
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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I was married for four years, then success happened.
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One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding even though it's no longer dominant, sin in my heart is constantly expressing itself in new disorderly desires.
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My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.
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This is what people don't understand. When they might see me do something that's not 'God-like,' then they say, 'Well, I thought you were saved?' I am saved. I'm not perfect. I have emotions still. My name's still Gary. These things here are not all cleaned up. I'm showing you my path.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave;Legions of angels can't confine me there.
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I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery. People are working every minute. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.
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Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.
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I'm not a real film buff. Unfortunately, I don't have time. I just don't go. And I become very nervous when I go to a film because I worry so much about the director and it is hard for me to digest my popcorn.
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Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.
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Well, in order to become a grown man, in order to become significant in my family and significant in my children's life, I had to learn my lessons.
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I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
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I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.
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Honesty is hard work.
