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Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
Robert Redford
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Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
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I have a lot of land. I bought it because I had a very strong feeling. I was in my early twenties, and I had grown up in Los Angeles and had seen that city slide off into the sea from the city I knew as a little kid. It lost its identity - suddenly there was cement everywhere and the green was gone and the air was bad - and I wanted out.
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It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
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Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.
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