I don't think I've met anyone as exceptional as Robin was ... every moment ...� could be explosive any which-way, you didn't know where it was going to go — you didn't know even where it came from — he seemed to be able to channel the Cosmos, and at the same time he was always totally involved with the people around him, he really had a close touch with everybody he touched.
— Terry Gilliam on Robin Williams
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I don't think I've met anyone as exceptional as Robin was … every moment … could be explosive any which-way, you didn’t know where it was going to go — you didn’t know even where it came from — he seemed to be able to channel the Cosmos, and at the same time he was always totally involved with the people around him, he really had a close touch with everybody he touched. He was absolutely extraordinary. … He seemed to be able to be … a kind of receptor of all knowledge, whatever it was, whether it was in the news, something from an encyclopedia, or from a book, he seemed to know all of this stuff, and he could then reassemble it, in the most incredible combinations — which was always surprising, funny and … outrageous, really, and I don't know how he did it. … That was always the miracle of Robin, it was something I've never bean able to explain.
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• Terry Gilliam, in video interview, "Terry Gilliam on the 'miracle of Robin Williams'" at BBC News (12 August 2014)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Robin Williams" (Quotes about Williams)
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Name: Robin Williams in 2008
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Description: English: Comedian and actor Robin Williams performs at the 2008 USO World Gala in Washington, D.C.
Date: 1 October 2008
Source: http://www.defenselink.mil/; exact source for image 081001-N-0696M-339
Author: Chad J. McNeeley, U.S. Navy
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