Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
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I was a huge ham in school in Atlanta.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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History is imperfect and biased, and it always, always has omissions. The most common omissions are the bits that the writer of that history took for granted that his readers would know.
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Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity.
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I'm really a normal person.
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In fact, safety has no place anywhere. Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.
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Christ may have lost his faith for a few seconds; He did not sell it in the marketplace for the trinkets of ego and curiosity.
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If you knew Peggy Sue - then you'd know why I feel blueWithout Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.Peggy Sue, Peggy Sue - oh how my heart yearns for you.Oh Peggy - my Peggy Sue.Oh well, I love you gal - yes, I love you Peggy Sue.
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What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
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You either listen to the naysayers and fall into the pit of self-loathing, or you stay on the path and move forward.
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I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.
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Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.
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While unions did not play a part in my family life when I was being brought up, my early years were most certainly spent in a working-class community.
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Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.
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I bring my ukulele everywhere I go, play a little music in the park, always have it with me.
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We must not think, 'Well, we have all the truth, we understand the main pillars of our faith, and we may rest on this knowledge.' The truth is an advancing truth, and we must walk in the increasing light.
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I just don't think our intensity was there. We were there, we knew what they were going to do, we were ready to play but I just don't think our heart was in it.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
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I'm fairly competant as a director and actor, but I am Mr. Neurotic as a writer. I just don't have enough confidence in my abilities to take criticism well. I take it personally. Start with 'It's a masterpiece,' and then tell me what you think could be changed.
