Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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If I had Instagram, it would be pictures of my son, who is a cat.
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Let me make this clear: it is our duty to adopt a policy barring the wearing of niqabs in these public buildings.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.
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Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Guns can turn you into an insider even if you're an outsider by nature, recruiting you into a loose fraternity of people who feel embattled and defensive and are primally eager to win allies.
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I went to jail at 16 for stealing tires off Cadillacs. When I got out I said, Never again.
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Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
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I am normally the manly-ish girl on the planet.
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Songs are more powerful than books.
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We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
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I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.
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Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.
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Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
