I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the joy of running in nature compared to a more confined experience on a track.
Robin Williams expresses his love for running cross-country as it allows him to connect with nature, illustrated by the humorous image of deer observing him. In contrast, he feels trapped like a hamster on a track, indicating that running in an open space offers freedom and unexpected encounters that are far more enjoyable than a monotonous routine.
In practice
In a speech about the benefits of outdoor activities, you might say, 'As Robin Williams once put it, running cross-country lets you experience nature in a way that feels alive.'
It's that idea that you can have one drink - and no you can't. Within a week I was drinking heavily. It was so quick that even I was like, 'Wow.' Because you have that initial warm feeling going, 'Oh, I remember this'. And your body does, too. And your body goes, 'Yeah, so do I'. Then the demon voice comes, 'Yeah, so do I. You know what would be great? You know we bought a little bottle before? A full bottle would be wonderful'.
I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.
Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
I've never been asked to appear on 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!,' so I guess I mustn't be on the professional skids just yet.
The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
We might as well die as to go on living like this.
In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third of a hockey game. In nineteen minutes, you can bake scones or get a tooth filled by a dentist; you can fold laundry for a family of five. In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years._x000D_ _x000D_ Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11.
I worry hope will crush me, the way love has so many times before. Are they so different, hope and love? O & E in the same place, half of the other in each word. Both swimming in unknowns. Iβve been through the big changes. These ones should seem easier in comparison, I should be more prepared, but they donβt and Iβm not. Sometimes I feel like a broken-wing butterfly, clinging to a window screen. Afraid to let go. Afraid to stay. Wondering how much wing is enough to fly.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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