Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes

Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

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• I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
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• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
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• All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

  

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• My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.

  

  Vince Cable
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• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
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• I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.

  

  Zadie Smith
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• Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• I'm really into kind of finding different masculine pieces and making them feminine. Like cool oxfords.

  

  Kat Graham
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• The thing about Donald Trump, he is a different candidate.

  

  Jack Kingston
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• A film has its own life and takes its own time.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
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• The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

  

  Karl Rove
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• You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
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• If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television anytime you want. But people still go to the ballpark because they are two different experiences. It's the same with film.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
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• It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written and you feel compelled to tell, in some ways it's a lot easier than acting because you're orchestrating the piece. As an actor, sometimes you're trying to second-guess what people want.

  

  Paddy Considine
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• If you stop for lunch elsewhere in the world, you tend to eat a sandwich, and a bad one. Italy is unique for the style of life. I think everyone envies it a bit.

  

  Lapo Elkann
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• I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

  

  Iggy Pop
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• I think people are enticed by indie rap and every time you have a group going against the grain, they're gonna be like, 'Wow, you did it yourself in 2012, that's impressive - how did you do it? What're you doing that's different? And how can I be a part of it?'

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• (perhaps a different and better translation of the same remark) quoted by Barbara Tuchman in The Guns of August (Random House, 1962)

  

  Ferdinand Foch
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• We used to tie-dye T-shirts and sell them to classmates. We used to make egg rolls and sell them at street fairs. I worked at the mall. My parents probably spent more money on the gas driving me to different jobs than I made.

  

  Aileen Lee
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• In general, I don't like game mechanics, I mean it's the idea you do the same things through different levels. I think, in my mind, it's an ideas I don't really like because I love to do different things and like to see the story moving on and I like to do different things and different scenes, not do the same thing over and over again. If it involves violence at some point fine, if it makes sense in the context. But violence for the sake of violence, it doesn't mean anything to me anymore.

  

  David Cage
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• So if you see a star and he needs a little money So come on baby give it to him this isn't funny! Just reach into your pocket, and pull out some change, Come on baby help a star it's not strange!

  

  Brad Sherwood
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• I think there's a huge amount of magic on television, which is slightly vapid: there's no real meaning or message behind it; it is simply a trick.

  

  Drummond Money-Coutts
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• As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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• Directing is creating a whole. You're able to combine different elements and create a film that is unique and true to your vision.

  

  Tim Robbins
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