Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I've always had a natural affiliation with nature. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be some sort of biologist working in the field in Africa or something.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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Andy Andrews is the best speaker I have ever seen.
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The more real things get, the more like myths they become.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I was at a ballpark as much as I was in school. I was on a basketball court or football field as much as I was in school, so I definitely was receiving mentorship when it came to coaches, my father, my grandfather, and my uncles.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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'Bagdad Cafe' was a film that changed many, many people's lives... how they saw themselves and how they looked at their life situation. I thought I made a little movie. All the mail that I get is about how it changed lives, and that's wonderful.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure story unless there's a pure product line that has its own shining clarity.
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Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane. A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
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I tried all my life to make housing affordable. The more affordable the house, the more money I make.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Reality makes no sense at all, except possibly from God's point of view
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I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.
