Robin Williams Quotes
On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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The whole point of Superman, as originally created, was to be the ally of those who had no other allies. It put that magnitude of power, the most powerful guy in the world, in the service of those who had no hope, no chance.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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I try to keep myself as normal as possible. Stardom is transient. People forget you after a while.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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I didn't know what was going through my mind.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
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You have to find something that you want to accomplish, that you want to achieve. You want to drop 15 pounds. You want to be able to run four miles. There has to be some goal that you set for yourself and, after you've reached that goal, you set a new one. You always have to be shooting for something, striving for something.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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I still think of myself really as a New Yorker.
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In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
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Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that's true.
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Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.
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Nonfiction is both easier and harder to write than fiction. It's easier because the facts are already laid out before you, and there is already a narrative arc. What makes it harder is that you are not free to use your imagination and creativity to fill in any missing gaps within the story.
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The goal of Bible translation is be transparent to the original text - to see as clearly as possible what the biblical authors actually wrote.
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On stage you’re free. You can say and do things that if you said and did any place else, you’d be arrested.
