Apollo Robbins Quotes
I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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When I started acting, it was like a double identity crisis - your basic crisis, compounded by people saying, 'there goes Robards' kid, Bacall's kid.' Now I realize, sure, that gets your foot in the door, but once it's there, it's your foot. I'm not bothered anymore. I'm confident of my abilities.
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Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Along with Senator Lieberman and others, I introduced the Energy Security Bill to use existing technologies with a variety of tax incentives to reduce our dependence on oil.
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
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The opening lines of a book are so important. You really need to somehow charm your reader. If you can't get her attention in the first pages, you may have lost her. There has to be an ambience.
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In order to survive in a dangerous neighborhood, Israel has always needed to be more than tough. The country has always needed to be smart.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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Unfettered, creative, and enthusiastic entrepreneurship is one of the hallmarks of American life, and it has allowed us to attract the best and brightest to this country.
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'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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What we can do as individuals may not be very much on the global scale, but we have to start the change by living as we are teaching.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
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I'm more obsessed with the idea of vacation than any one particular vacation spot. I love to explore new places and cultures.
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What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
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Brussels is a gay little city that lies as bright within its girdle of woodland as any butterfly that rests upon moss.
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Marilyn Monroe: What about the difference in our ages?
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Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
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Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.
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It is time to step back from the apartheid brink...
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It's not at all uncommon for a writer to get a ton of publicity for one book and then not get as much for the next one. I don't worry about that because I try to worry about the one single part of the job I can control: the writing of the book. If I do that well, I feel, good tidings generally will follow and readers will stick with me.
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I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'
