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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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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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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Many people misunderstand me - I'm quite happy to be called a photographer. All of a sudden, the art world has caught up with photography, and they are trying to hijack us.
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Never seem wiser or more learned than the people you are with.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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I don't want to see Superman replaced with Superboy.
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I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.
