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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I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.
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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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People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.
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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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It takes a very strange person to enjoy fame, with all the by-products that come with it. It's not necessarily a thrill.
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Until 1954, I'd only ever thought of being a painter, but I earned my money when and where I could. You could say I drifted into writing.
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There is a real danger of unintended consequences, of encouraging people to give up. Pessimism, if it becomes a habit, can reinforce a narrative of unstoppable decline. If there is nothing we can do, that releases us from our obligations.
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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marry. A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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I've always been proud of being a Hoosier. When I talk to people, I tell them that.
