Robert Wise Quotes
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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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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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
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I want a big house with a moat and dragons and a fort to keep people out.
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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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There's footage of me bouncing around, all uncoordinated, trying to work out how on earth you're supposed to do a rising trot on a really extravagant moving eventing horse.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.
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The massive migration from dumb phones to smart phones is a great opportunity for young companies to take advantage of.
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I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.
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The student newspapers are as important to me as the 'New York Times.'
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I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.
