Robin Williams Quotes
You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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I'm very interested in the idea of a large group of people who come together quite suddenly, but not illogically, for reasons that could not have been anticipated.
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One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.
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You want a career? Do that first. You don't want to have kids? Then don't. You don't want to get married? Then don't. But once you do something, you've got to know that there is compromise.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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I don't eat any dairy products at all, usually - it's a self-imposed ban. I've done it for a year now, since I was ill, but it's so hard.
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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They got into fact checking at the 'Paris Review,' and it was mortifying. There was a wrangle about Hemingway's lost stories that nearly killed me. It turns out he didn't lose those stories. They weren't stolen from the platform.
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I was just the perfect person to play the Mini-Me character.
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.
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It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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What makes a painting fascinating is its sincerity. Sincerity is such a rare thing. Most people don't dare to be sincere.
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You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you’ll win, no matter what the outcome.
