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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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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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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After working with clothes for so long, it seemed right to design them.
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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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I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.
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The family feuds or the village feuds often had to do with an idea of honor. Perhaps it was a peasant idea; perhaps this idea of honor is especially important to a society without recourse to law or without confidence in law.
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I'm one of those guys that spins through the clicker when I'm watching TV. When one of my movies comes on, I'll watch a scene or two.
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Just getting something in the books that makes sure people with mental illness and terrorists can't get guns would be a good idea.
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We're not curing cancer, people. I wish we were, but we're not. It's entertainment.
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I want my work to influence public conversation, to turn heads, and to bear witness to this problem that's raging in our cities. If journalism helps me with that, I'll draw on journalism... and I'm not going to worry too much if academics get troubled over that distinction.
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God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.
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It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
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I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.
