Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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Let us show our fellow countrymen and the entire world what the Germans can do when they work for peace.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Every single day, I get up and I say, 'I am going to live and not die.'
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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will be an anchor for all of West Africa. Africa needs a strong Nigeria.
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How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
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You never needed anybody.If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.
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Ce n'est jamais qu'à cause d'un état d'esprit qui n'est pas destiné à durer qu'on prend des résolutions définitives.1
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If my life is a movie - in the movie, there's always the bad part. There's also the parts where you're down and out, and there are parts where everything's amazing.
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I really tried to play more intensely in practice and not play like maybe two, three hours just like that. I just go to court and spend a lot of hours as well on gym, or just make a lot of sprints and movement.
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Guess what? Human beings are complex.
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I brought attention to the fact that people need to be more involved in politics and not just let the establishment continue to control politics.
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To bring out a new technology for consumers first, you just had a very long road to go down to try to find people who actually would pay money for something.
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A person is either with this court or he must be counted against it, there be no road between. This is a sharp time, now, a precise time - we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.
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One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did.
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Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh?
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When I'm working on my characters, that's something I pay a lot of attention to: how their body works, how they move, how they articulate.
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The road to finding 'the one' is paved with a bit of promiscuity.
