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Robin Williams Quotes

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

Topics

Sometimes Improv Like Running Works

A man was defined, in my father's circles, by what he could bear, the pain he could shrug off, the warmth or comfort he could deny himself.

Father Man Pain Comfort Bear Warmth

I'm in the gym every day, Monday through Friday. And I train really hard to go out and do a tour. So that, basically, what I'm doing with my trainer is that I train harder in the gym than the amount of energy that I expend on the stage. So by the time I'm ready to go out on the road, doing a show is a whole lot easier.

Time Day Monday Road Energy Friday

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

Life Sad Time Yourself Me You

If, at the end of my mandate, all Brazilians have the possibility to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner, I will have fulfilled the mission of my life.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Life Breakfast Lunch Dinner End Eat

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

Back Go Shy Nowhere Come

When I first arrived, I likened Congress to being back in school again as a freshman. Well, just like school, we have an 'August recess,' but don't let the name fool you - it's not even close to a vacation.

Fool Vacation School Name You Back

We have a presidential nominee in Hillary Clinton who knows that, in a time of stunningly wide disparities of wealth in our nation, America's greatness must not be measured by how many millionaires and billionaires we have, but by how few people we have living in poverty.

Time Greatness People America Wealth

It's a lot easier to gain traction when there is such a great proliferation of Internet access. The velocity at which some of these startups are gaining traction is mind-boggling. Companies like ShoeDazzle, Stella & Dot, Gilt, Groupon - these companies are going from zero to hundreds of millions in revenue in three years.

Great Internet Three Years Going

I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.

Work Think Price Trophy Paid Very

We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.

Anthony Padilla

People Internet Bad Back Go Pilot

I can ride horses. And I read a lot. But that's kind of it. I think it's enough.

Ride Think Enough I Can Kind Horses

When I started, you didn't focus so much on production, certainly not - gosh - down to the finest little detail of how you shifted your eyes or how you turned to somebody. A lot of the shots were far away from a still camera. There weren't as many close-ups and intimacy.

Eyes Focus Detail Camera You Down

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