Angela Robinson Quotes
Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.
Quotes to Explore
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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You can't succeed in beating the insurgents unless you can convince the people that they can be protected.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
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It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
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I think in general I've never dared compose in Spanish. First of all, it is such an intricate language.
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When I was a kid, we used to play this thing called 'the writing game' with our father. My brother and I would play it - where first person writes a sentence, and the second person writes a sentence, and the third person writes a sentence, and so on until you get bored and have to go to bed.
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Playing the villain, bringing her to life, is the most fun because there really are no rules.
