Robin Williams Quotes
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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Without numerous schools offering hands-on opportunities, no commander will be cultivated.
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I can be a nice person, but if someone is messing with someone I care about, the tougher side comes out a little more.
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Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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I ended up living at OJ's because Nicole bought a home that no longer had a guest house. OJ offered his guest house to me. Anybody in LA looking for a place knows the best places to live are guest houses.
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I owe a lot to my parents.
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I want my films to offer wholesome entertainment and not be my personal showreels.
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Books and people are hard to compare.
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People like comfort; that's natural. But as for making money simply for the sake of making it, and giving yourself far more trouble and anxiety to gain it than you can ever get pleasure from it when it's gained, why, as for me, I'd rather sit still and cross my arms.
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Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.
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I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.
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I really feel kind of guilty spending 80 million dollars. People are starving in the world.
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I was a big fan of how Johnny Carson hosted awards shows. Dick Cavett, as well, I think did a really great job of providing a nice blend of comedy, wit and class.
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I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'
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I'll be writing essays long after I've stopped writing fiction. There is this unusually broad range in the non-fiction, but if you look at what I'm capable of as a novelist, I'm more limited.
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Coming from a sort of very rigid European type of training to this culture which is just a little more open - a lot more open, and kind of curious, and asking different sorts of questions.Because the problem for me was that the European modernist movement in the '70s was all about right or wrong. Some things were right and you were dealing with the truth, as it were, and then some things were wrong and therefore not allowed.
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.
