Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes
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I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.
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As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.
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I miss Broadway, what little there is on Broadway now.
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Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
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Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
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I know what I can do so it doesn't bother me what other people think or their opinion on the situation.
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Albanians, we tan well! I don't burn; I bake.
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How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
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I didn't really understand what you did when you went in front of the camera. And then suddenly I just understood it. When you're in a play, you carry the story, but you don't have to do that in film.
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It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool in creating terror or dread.
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We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.
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There's a green room at the Oscars. It's really small, very warm, and it's really fun because you get to see everyone just lounging on couches. It's right before you go out to present, so it's everyone in there. And then they have this crudite section, and cheeses and crackers.
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Make sure that when you look at your plate, it's a beautiful blank canvas to start with, and you want lots of color on there. You want to make sure you have whole grains and protein. It should not be beige in color; it should be green and bright red, and orange and yellow.
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When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.
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I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.
