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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The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.
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Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly.
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I've been involved in doing advertising for various elections and I just couldn't see doing anti-Trump advertising in this election. My line has been, "How could you do anything worse that what he does himself?".
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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My fans are grown now. They are not expecting me to do the bubblegum pop I did 20 years ago, even though it was pretty substantive. It was saying more than bubblegum pop says today. I am continuing where I left off.
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I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.
