Robin Williams Quotes
It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
Quotes to Explore
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There is always pressure in football.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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I want to work with great directors. I've picked films based on the script or the character and seen them collapse because the directors were not strong visionaries.
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I've always prided myself on my discipline as a writer. I do it like a job. I get up in the morning and go to my desk.
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Without great writing, you've got a bunch of actors bumping into each other.
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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
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Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
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I love taking challenges, as my name Leander means 'lion's heart.'
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It's hard when you read an article saying bad things about you. It is as if someone is sticking a knife on your heart. But I am the harshest critic of my work.
