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.

  

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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.

  

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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)

  

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• I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the Internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.

  

  Matt Bomer
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• One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."

  

  Zak Penn
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• I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• It was very important for us to hear that both European governments and the IMF are going to sustain and augment their commitment to Greece because they don't pursue the debt reduction route. They're actually extending more debt, more loans to Greece.

  

  Charles Dallara
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• I've still got a twinkle in me.

  

  Robert Plant Led Zeppelin

• There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.

  

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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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