Mel Rodriguez Quotes
'Goodfellas' has kind of got it all. That was probably one of my favorite films as a kid, so I carried a picture of 'Goodfellas' in my wallet.
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There are different reasons to make movies.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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Oddly enough, Bruce Lee wrote some great philosophy.
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You know, one of the things I like about this world, or at least I like about the way we're presenting this world, is these issues are terribly complicated - not nearly as black and white as we're led to believe.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity. However, with Zen we have not only the void, but the fertile void. The ink lines in a sumi-e painting show this fertility of the void ever ready to brim over into existence.
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I don't believe love is real love if it remains cloistered within the confines of an intimate relationship; it should transcend the private sphere. As an artist that means training an eye on the suffering in the world, then acting on behalf of others.
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Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.
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Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
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I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
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'Goodfellas' has kind of got it all. That was probably one of my favorite films as a kid, so I carried a picture of 'Goodfellas' in my wallet.
