Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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I still feel I need to do things 10 times better than other players. Just to be accepted and to improve myself.
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I had a pretty public divorce. They're not easy - divorces - and it took me a long time to really get through.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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I feel like J. K. Rowling's world is one that is owned by everyone in some ways. People have grown up with it and have such a sense of that universe that there's something kind of wonderful seeing everyone get involved.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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Of course, I tweet. Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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There is such a thing as Literary Fashion, and prose and verse have been regulated by the same caprice that cuts our coats and cocks our hats.
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I am she, O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd.
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
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I've been to location shoots in Mexico before, and everyone ends up getting sick.
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The work of Henry James has always seemed divisible by a simple dynastic arrangement into three reigns: James I, James II, and the Old Pretender.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.
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The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
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You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing.
