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Robin Williams on Masks
Season 1
Episode 24
"Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh. To make us realize we still are part animal.... So you don't take yourself seriously and destroy the species." - Robin Williams in 1991, as told to Lawrence Grobel
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"We're going to investigate every single one of these hypotheses, and we'll tell you what
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"I’m very interested in how people adapt to extremes” - Oliver Sacks on July 28, 1996
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“I don’t feel any compulsion just to stand under the spotlight night after night unless I
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"If God didn‘t want me to sing it, he wouldn‘t have given me the talent to do it“ - Stevie
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"If you want to preserve your power indefinitely, you have to get the consent of the rule.
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Marlene Dietrich in 1969, as interviewed by Jay Kent Hackleman
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"It’s okay being a woman now. I like it. Try it some time.” - Nora Ephron, 1975
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“I‘m never going to become rich and famous” - Bob Dylan in 1962.
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"I don‘t think that there‘s a girl around that would fit in with what we do."
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Rod Serling interviewed in 1963.
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“I’m a cookie-decorating mom. I don’t bake them. I decorate them.“
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"Sometimes when it all comes together ... you become the film you’re making."