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Problems can become opportunities when the right people come together.

Robert Redford

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Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
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People are becoming more and more aware of how the dominance of development and business is altering their lives and, in particular, their own heritage.
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Ambiguity is something that I really respond to. I like the complexity of it.
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I guess the optimistic thing is that those people in Congress who are climate deniers, I think their time has run out.
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I'm not a facelift person. I am what I am.
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I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.
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I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
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People are finally able to look around and say, 'I can see the drought, I can see the rising sea levels, I can see the crops dying. Okay, now I get it.' It is finally beginning to sink in that there has been a lot of damage.
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Sometimes the failures can be exciting and fun. It's just a step on the road, it's not the end of something.
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If you want to slice into America, it's pretty red, white, and blue in terms of how it goes about things, but there's a gray area there, and I've always been interested in where things are complicated.
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I can't watch completed films - my wife makes fun of me.
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The big moment for me was making 'All the President's Men'. It was not about Watergate or President Nixon. I wanted to focus on something I thought not many people knew about: How do journalists get the story?
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He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
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I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'
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I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?
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Let's get something straight - I don't see myself as beautiful.
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I think quiet sometime is a greater power than noise. It can harbor and reveal feelings that can't be expressed.
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I remember my dad came from Ireland and Scotland, and so he carried with him the fear of poverty. So when I wanted to break loose, it kind of made him very nervous.
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Between 18 and 19 years old [in the 1950s] I came to Paris. I studied art. And that experience really did change my life. I was living hand to mouth. I walked everywhere. I thought, this city is incredible but you really have to experience it by walking it.
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I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.
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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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