Timothy Bottoms Quotes
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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I had no desire to be a chef, but I had a desire to be someone who was heard.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn't, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
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I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.
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Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.
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Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.
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If you don’t have a struggle inside or around you, you have to make one up.
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In the modern world the intelligence of public opinion is the one indispensable condition for social progress.
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I had a world. I don't think I had a career. I made films.
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A lot of feature films do two pages a day.
