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Success is a tricky mistress. It's nice to have but it's a tricky thing to embrace.
Robert Redford
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Robert Redford
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: August 18
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I would see my hometown, Los Angeles, change. Green space and orange groves gave way to cement, freeways flooded with traffic, and air pollution, all in the name of progress. I felt like I was losing my home. It had a profound effect on me, and I realized just how important nature was to my spirit, my soul, my point of view.
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Any time I saw people treated unfairly because of race, creed, whatever - it struck a nerve.
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I'm not that interested in someone that one-dimensional, but I'm interested in playing somebody that's more complicated.
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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 don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on Wednesday night my parents would walk us over to the library. It was such a big deal, to go in and get my own book.
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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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When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.
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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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Radio, newspapers, they were normal parts of my life. In those days, you had to go somewhere to watch television and leave something to see it.
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We've poisoned the air, the water, and the land. In our passion to control nature, things have gone out of control. Progress from now on has to mean something different. We're running out of resources and we are running out of time.
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Television tells us only the things it wants to. It still feeds us heroes, it still offers villains. And even though we know better than to always trust it, we still watch.
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I never had to worry about divestment because I never invested.
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You work like hell to get yourself ahead in the business. You could go anywhere before, and suddenly you can't go anywhere. It's like being a cartoon character.
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I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor.
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