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No man is an island but some are peninsulas.

Robin Williams

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Robin Williams
Age: 63 †
Born: 1951
Born: July 21
Died: 2014
Died: August 11
Actor
Audiobook Narrator
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Mime Artist
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Chicago
Illinois
Robin McLaurin Williams
Peninsulas
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My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.
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Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.
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We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.
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You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
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If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
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You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.
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What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.
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Golf is a game where white men can dress up as black pimps and get away with it.
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous. And then you realize, no, actually if you take a break people might be more interested in you.
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My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.
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To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity.
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She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other
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Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial.
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I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!
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