When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker. - Robin Williams

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If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Robin Williams

When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.

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I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'

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