Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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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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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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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 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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She said, 'Spell 'ant' ', and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, 'That doesn't spell 'ant' ', and I said, 'It's in there somewhere! There's the A, there's the N, there's the T – the rest are silent!'
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Reality doesn't bite, rather our perception of reality bites.
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I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
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But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing.
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I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.
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I find you get out of people what you put into them.
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It's bizarre to have both a super-connected and disconnected world. Like, you can use Twitter in the most narcissistic way. Do people really need to know that I'm drinking a latte right now? It's so indulgent.
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If it's a day to indulge, I like to have a burrito or a steak.
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I started to write The Name of the Rose in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
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I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.
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Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love.
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I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.
