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Robert Martin Williams (30 March 1919 – 18 March 2013), generally known as Robin Williams, was a New Zealand mathematician, academic administrator and public servant. He served as vice chancellor of the University of Otago from 1967 to 1972, and of the Australian National University from 1973 to 1975. Between 1975 and 1981, he was chair of the State Services Commission. Early life and family Born in Christchurch in 1919, Williams was educated at Christ's College and went on to study at Canterbury University College, graduating MA with first-class honours in mathematics and mathematical physics in 1941. On 15 July 1944, Williams married Mary Thorpe in Wellington, and the couple went on to have three children. Career Williams worked in the applied mathematics laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. During World War II, he worked at the University of California, Berkeley on the Manhattan Project in 1944–45 on the separation of uranium. After the war, he graduated from St. John's College, Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (1946) and PhD (1949). He was a Harkness Fellow at Princeton in 1957.

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“I would like to do for you now, a Japanese science fiction movie: "Attack of the Killer Vibrators."”
— Performance at the L.A. Improv (1977)
“Before I go on, I want to ask if there are any Hell's Angels here tonight? [no response] … Those pussy-whipped faggots!”
— Performance at the L.A. Improv (1977)
“You're only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you're nothin'.”
— A Night at the Roxy (1978)
“Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready."”
— As quoted in The Fourth—And by Far the Most Recent—637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) edited by Robert Byrne, p, 518
“Parry is a man with a previous life that was so damaged that he had to create another personality. … It's like post-traumatic stress syndrome: Some people respond to traumatic or tragic events by withdrawal; some even create other personalities. Parry is a creation — somewhat Don Quixote, somewhat Groucho Marx — but he's a creation designed to avoid a past event.”
— On his role in The Fisher King (1991), as quoted in "Dreams: The Fisher King" (2006) edited by Phil Stubbs
“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”
— "Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s", Parade (12 September 2013)

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Notable quotes

“I would like to do for you now, a Japanese science fiction movie: "Attack of the Killer Vibrators."”
— Performance at the L.A. Improv (1977)
“Before I go on, I want to ask if there are any Hell's Angels here tonight? [no response] … Those pussy-whipped faggots!”
— Performance at the L.A. Improv (1977)
“You're only given a little spark of madness and if you lose that, you're nothin'.”
— A Night at the Roxy (1978)
“Death is nature's way of saying, "Your table is ready."”
— As quoted in The Fourth—And by Far the Most Recent—637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1990) edited by Robert Byrne, p, 518
“Parry is a man with a previous life that was so damaged that he had to create another personality. … It's like post-traumatic stress syndrome: Some people respond to traumatic or tragic events by withdrawal; some even create other personalities. Parry is a creation — somewhat Don Quixote, somewhat Groucho Marx — but he's a creation designed to avoid a past event.”
— On his role in The Fisher King (1991), as quoted in "Dreams: The Fisher King" (2006) edited by Phil Stubbs
“Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.”
— "Robin Williams on Returning to TV, Getting Sober, and Downsizing in His 60s", Parade (12 September 2013)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Robin Williams across IJR

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