Robin Williams Quotes

The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
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• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  

  Gail Sheehy
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• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
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• A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.

  

  Laura Wade
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• Legislators should demand that we not go through the entire pension reform debate just to apply a band-aid when this patient needs a quadruple bypass.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Band
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• I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.

  

  Taylor Dane
  • Trying
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• When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.

  

  Victor LaValle
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  • Book
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• The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Player

• I studied business and also studied film, then I graduated, and I worked at a network. I was able to use my business skills there - I was an associate producer for a little bit.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Business
  • Film
  • Skills

• My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing.'

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Window
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  • Once

• I have no skills. I'm bad at most things.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Bad
  • Things
  • Skills

• If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Time
  • Skills
  • Fitness

• As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Done
  • Act
  • Skills

• The hijab, or sikh turban, or Jewish skullcap are all explicit symbols, but they do not represent a threat or affront to others, and have no bearing on the competence, skills and intelligence of a person.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Intelligence
  • Skills
  • Others

• Continue to study and learn new skills.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Study
  • Learn
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• I'm getting a bunch more face tattoos, because it doesn't look like I'm ever going to have to apply to a Walmart or Best Buy.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
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• Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • God
  • Education
  • Apply

• It's about using social media for social change: creating a community of advocates who can use their voices on behalf of the voiceless, or leverage their talents, skills, knowledge, and resources to put more children into classrooms, or pressure their elected representatives to get global education top of the agenda.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Children
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• The sophisticated girlfriend of my next-door neighbor said, 'Well, of course you're applying to Juilliard.' I didn't even know what Juilliard was.

  

  Marcia Cross
  • Door
  • Girlfriend
  • Neighbor

• It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I ever felt like I was helping someone paint. They had a very clear idea of what they wanted it to look like, sound like, be like. So, there was no operating outside the box. The only way to help him was to try to really be a part of his imagination and try to make it happen. He's a super kind and loving person. So, you wanted to help him. It just was none of my normal ways of helping a director work at all. So, it was a unique experience for me that way.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Idea

• Whenever I go to New York I try to soak up as much live music as I can, including as many nights at the opera as I can manage.

  

  Garth Greenwell
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Manage

• The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Day-to-day things, the mundane, are what keeps the motor running. How extraordinary the ordinary really is, a tool we all use to keep going, a template for sanity.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Running
  • Sanity
  • Mundane

• The idea of Juilliard was that it would give you this toolbox full of skills that you could take with you and apply to anything.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Skills
  • Apply
  • Toolbox