Tim Robbins (Timothy Francis Robbins) Quotes
I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I am from the Kardashian group. We can take anything.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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You can't show up at the bedside and then turn on your skills. You have to keep your game sharp all the time.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system, but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated, and I can't be part of that.
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Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
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I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
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My father died the year I was elected to Congress: 1987.
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We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
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I get really, really concerned when I see somebody, taking $600,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, will not release what they're actually saying. That's concerning.
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I definitely could not write a character that was cruel or unconcerned with animal welfare. For me, not just as a writer but for the person I am, I love animals.
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I'm happy David Caruso is out there working.
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I wish I could talk like Donald Trump or Steve Wynn. Hell, I'd love it.
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
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Acting just happens to be my skill, but I think I would probably be just as happy being a technician or entering into the film business in some other way.
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In period films, it always helps to have someone built to carry a sword, and Channing Tatum clearly hasn't missed a workout for the past two years, so he fits the bill in that regard.
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Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.
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The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
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I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.
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I'm six foot four and a half and I have a temper. It's reserved for very important issues. If someone is asking me to make an artistic concession, then I'll become a madman.
