Robin Williams Quotes
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
Quotes to Explore
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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When I see a movie with someone it's kind of uncomfortable.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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The challenge is how strange and different my voice sounds, so I have tried to sound like other people and tried to be something I wasn't. I have tried to be a soul singer because someone else thought that a good idea. Not because I did.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.
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If it feels right and I'm not going against any energy in myself or the situation, there would be no limit.
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Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball, and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'
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When I was younger, of course I had people act inappropriately to me. I've had certain directors yell at me. But I didn't stand for it, and I didn't let it go far enough for it to be in any way abusive to me.
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Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever this thing is which is seeking expression through everything, it can find satisfactory outlet only through constructive and life-giving creativeness.
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Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.
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I believe my woman shouldn't work outside the home.
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
