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Daily Inspiration Quote by Robin Tunney

"This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages"

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The tell here is the flinch of sincerity inside a throwaway exaggeration. Robin Tunney is talking like a normal person who got hit with an absurdly earnest bureaucratic response: a Tourette's center, doing its due diligence, mails a mountain of material; she, overwhelmed, turns it into a punchline. The "like 900 hundred pages" isn’t meant to be mathematically correct. It’s a verbal shrug that communicates scale, intimidation, and the weird comedy of being handed expertise in bulk.

Subtext-wise, it’s a snapshot of how laypeople meet medical institutions: not through clarity, but through paperwork, pamphlets, and the implied homework of self-education. If Tunney is referencing research for a role (a common context when actors discuss condition-specific centers), the line also hints at the performance industry’s tug-of-war between authenticity and practicality. You want to do it right, you want to be respectful, and then reality shows up in a box heavy enough to bruise your inbox and your conscience.

It works because the humor isn’t aimed at Tourette’s; it’s aimed at the machinery around it. The center’s generosity becomes comic excess. Her imprecise number is a small rebellion against that excess, a way to admit, without self-pity, that good intentions can still be unmanageable. In one sentence, she captures the modern feeling of being asked to be informed, responsible, and sensitive - immediately, thoroughly, and in 900-hundred-page installments.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Tunney, Robin. (2026, January 15). This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-tourettes-center-sent-me-a-package-that-was-145053/

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Tunney, Robin. "This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-tourettes-center-sent-me-a-package-that-was-145053/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"This Tourette's center sent me a package that was like 900 hundred pages." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/this-tourettes-center-sent-me-a-package-that-was-145053/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Robin Tunney (born June 19, 1972) is a Actress from USA.

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