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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I read '1984' at a precocious age, like 8, and when I did the math, I realized that Julia, Winston Smith's lover, was born the same year I was, 1957. I read that book over and over again with the 1960s as a backdrop: anti-war and anti-bomb protests and this general pervasive sense of doom.
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For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.
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I learned nothing at school, so I just lived in my own world.
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Never define your success by somebody else's success. I never looked at another man's grass to tell how green mine should be.
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I've long been really intrigued with what is the... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
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I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.
