Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
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I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting.
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Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
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The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don't get scared, get ready to buy!
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We are so isolated in our own little worlds, in our own little geographies, that it's pretty hard to understand where someone else is coming from. And so I think that we have to really think about what that means as a country and, frankly, whether this segregation that we have is durable over the long run.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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I think when you're a TV presenter, you have to have a reason for doing it, and a lot of them have been around a long time and grafted for that. The reason why it works with me on 'The Xtra Factor' is because I was a contestant on it, and I have a relationship with the viewers at home.
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I always wanted to know, and I always used to daydream, about what it would be like to stand on a really big stage and sing songs for a lot of people, songs that I had written... Daydreaming was kind of my No. 1 thing when I was little, because I didn't have much of a social life going on.
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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Over at our place, we're sure of just one thing: everybody in the world was once a child. So in planning a new picture, we don't think of grown-ups, and we don't think of children, but just of that fine, clean, unspoiled spot down deep in every one of us that maybe the world has made us forget and that maybe our pictures can help recall.
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I've never liked Welles as an actor, because he's not really an actor. In Hollywood you have two categories, you talk about actors and personalities. Welles was an enormous personality, but when he plays Othello, everything goes down the drain, you see, that's when he's croaks. In my eyes he's an infinitely overrated filmmaker.
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Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.
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There were…smiles of encouragement for Lydgate, and some smiles of sweet pity as well, as for the only leper present.
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There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.
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There is no secret ingredient or hidden formula responsible for the success of the best Japanese companies.
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People are always talking about the old days. They say that the old movies were better, that the old actors were so great. But I don't think so. All I can say about the old days is that they have passed.
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I don't listen to the radio.
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I play myself every day, and it's quite boring.
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Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.
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Don't listen to what the Communists say, but look at what they do.
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The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one.
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I've long ago compromised my eight hours a night.
