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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Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
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What's so funny about cats is that they have this kind of aloof, superior vibe to them. Even if you love them, they are unpredictable. Dogs are more social, and the way that they attach and bond to us is much more human.
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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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At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.
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Greg White got a boxer because I said I was getting one. I was talking about getting a boxer since before training camp.
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You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness.
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The United Nations was not set up to be a reformatory. It was assumed that you would be good before you got in and not that being in would make you good.
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I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read.
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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.
