"When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it."

-- Robin Williams

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“I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The essay I had to read was called, "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope. The first challenge was that the essay was, in fact, a very long poem in "heroic couplets". If something is called an essay, it should be an essay.”
“When you're happy, you don't count the years.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I donâ€™t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.”
“Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
“When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.”
“The truth is usually left for us to hunt and gather independently, if we are so inclined.”

Source : Jessica Buchanan, Hannah Luce, Katherine Preston, Reyna Grande, Shirley MacLaine (2013). “The Lives of Others: Discover the Hidden Lives of Some of Our Favorite Atria Authors”, p.73, Simon and Schuster
“When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.”

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