Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
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The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.
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I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.
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Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.
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Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
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As I had visualized, 'Heroine' is shaping up to be a very contemporary film with a different premise and strata. This film, like most of my other films, is a blend of facts and fiction. The film has a larger span, more characters, and costumes... a journey that revolves around an actress's life and the showbiz.
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The fact that I've managed to find a husband who understands and respects everything I do is astonishing.
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
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Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.
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The classification of facts and the formation of absolute judgments upon the basis of this classification-judgments independent of the idiosyncrasies of the individual mind-essentially sum up the aim and method of modern science. The scientific man has above all things to strive at self-elimination in his judgments, to provide an argument which is as true for each individual mind as for his own.
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When I grew up I saw females doing certain things, and I thought I had to do that exactly. The female rappers of my day spoke about sex a lot . . . and I thought that to have the success they got, I would have to represent the same thing. When in fact I didn’t have to represent the same thing.
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There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.
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The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments.
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All these ways we classify things as R&B and hip-hop and rock... It's bullshit. It's all music. If you put yourself in that box, then you won't be able to hear that it's all music at its soul.
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But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.
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When they got behind three games to none, I was thinking 'Here we go again...
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Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.
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There is no doubt that the Internet brims with spamming, scamming and identity fraud. Having someone wipe out your hard drive or bank account has never been easier, and the tools for committing electronic mischief on your enemies are cheap and widely accessible.
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Theatrical times are different from concert times, to put it simply. Taking a figure like [Mahatma] Gandhi and setting him on a stage requires thinking about what theater is about and what the whole experience is about and what we're trying to communicate in that way, so you get into certain less abstract considerations.
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Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
