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Tim Robbins

Tim Robbins

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Birthday October 16, 1958

Birthplace West Covina, California, United States

Educated At Stuyvesant High School

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Television Actor, Film Actor, Film Director, Film Producer, Musician

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I was just thinking what an interesting concept it is to eliminate the writer from the artistic process. If we could just get rid of these actors and directors, maybe we've got something here.

— Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins), The Player

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The funny thing is, on the outside, I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

— Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), The Shawshank Redemption

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You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That’s where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

— Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), The Shawshank Redemption

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Get busy living or get busy dying.

— Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), The Shawshank Redemption

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That’s the beauty of music. They can’t get that from you.

— Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins), The Shawshank Redemption

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Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

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I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

— Johnny Cash, An Interview with the Man In Black

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I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the

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Writers don’t write from experience, although many are hesitant to admit that they don’t…If you wrote from experience, you’d get maybe one book, maybe three poems. Writers write from empathy.

— Nikki Giovanni, The Mary Sue at NYCC: Don’t Write What You Know, Fight It!

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I am a poem.
There is no way out.

— Charles Bukowski, Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970

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Well write to me. You may save a human life.

— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

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I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.

— Flannery O’Connor, A quote by Flannery O'Connor

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What kind of writer am I? With all this love and no words for it?

— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters

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Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

— Hermann Hesse, My Belief: Essays on Life and Art

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Because paper has more patience than people.

— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

— Gwendolyn Brooks, Conversations with Gwendolyn Brooks (Literary Conversations)

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I’m so used to being misunderstood.

— Jamaica Kincaid, Jamaica Kincaid Isn’t Writing About Her Life, She Says

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I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of.

— Joss Whedon, The Whedon watch

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A true piece of writing is a dangerous thing…It can change your life.

— Tobias Wolff, Old School

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Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

— Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle

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The purpose of a writer is to make revolution irresistible.

— Toni Cade Bambara, via Amazon

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Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

— Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway (Odysseys in Artistry)

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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

— Aimee Bender, A Night With Aimee Bender: Review

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Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn’t change them, since I believed them at the time.

— Jorge Amado, Tieta (THE AMERICAS)

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I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.

— Tobias Wolff, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War

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