Genesis Rodriguez Quotes
I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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When I hung up my toe shoes, I didn't look back. In all my years, I have never looked back.
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I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops.
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What the bride should do is call guests who have young children and say: 'I'd love to have the kids at the wedding, but we won't have room. Would you get a baby sitter, and when we get back from our honeymoon, we'll have you guys over?'
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Reading and discovering fiction has taught me how to empathise, understand falling in love and all those complex relationships that people have to deal with.
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I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.
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I broke people's bones, tore muscles, ribs, faces, inflicted some serious and heavy damages to my opponents, etc... I got hurt myself, too, from serious attacks.
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I think I'm representing a new generation of Latinos - bilingual, bicultural people.
