Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality.
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I can't pretend that I'm a great student of the art of comedy because anybody that becomes philosophical about humour doesn't know what he's talking about.
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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
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I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.
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Nowadays, the truth is, I think a lot of the newer generation of action stars usually are pretty self-deprecating and cool. I mean, Dwayne Johnson is a great example.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
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Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
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There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
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I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.
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Presumption must be quenched even more than a fire.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.
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You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else.
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I love iconoclasts. I love individuals. I love people that are true to themselves, whatever the cost.
