Elizabeth Rodriguez Quotes
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You gotta understand, you can't look at no pictures and look at the media and the critics and what they saying on no Internet.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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I often reread books I have written.
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I love going to the Via Giulia, a beautiful old cobbled street, which has a bridge at one end behind the Palazzo Farnese. It has long creepers hanging from it, and is the most evocative, beautiful place to stand and enjoy the city.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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Making films. It gave me a voice. Legitimately saved me.
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The Catholic Church is one of the oldest, largest and richest institutions on earth, with a following 1.2 billion strong, and change does not come naturally.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.
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Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail.
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In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
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I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.
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One of the redeeming things about being an athlete is redefining what is humanly possible.
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I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.
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The Shins is, in a way, a recording project that turned into a live band. So I don't really keep myself beholden to any rules when I'm in the studio for Shins. I just gotta get it done as best I can.
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History does not pose problems without eventually producing the solutions.
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For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.
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I'm sort of a straight shooter.
