Robert Zemeckis Quotes
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.
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There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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I've made Umno more democratic, more inclusive. Of course, by doing that, I'm putting myself at risk.
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Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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It wasn't until after the reduction that in the lab work, the pathology, that they found that I had DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ) in my left breast. I was very, very lucky because DCIS is basically stage-zero cancer. So I was very lucky.
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The Obama administration has turned a blind eye to radical Islam since before they came to office. If you look at everything that's transpired since the famous Cairo speech in 2009, it's all been an embrace of those who are the most radical elements in that part of the world. That is not a good sign for America's foreign policy.
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So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
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I won't perform in Cuba until there's no more Castro and there's a free Cuba. To me, Cuba's the biggest prison in the world, and I would be very hypocritical were I to perform there.
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Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.
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I had spent so many years on 'Law & Order: UK' being a downtrodden detective standing on Hammersmith Bridge at six o'clock in the morning, being rained and snowed on, and I thought, 'I'll have a bit of a change of direction in my career and go and do 'SunTrap' in Gran Canaria.'
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I need theatre for my equilibrium, because in theatre the actors don't care so much about image, about celebrity - you are more independent. There is not the narcissism, maybe, that you find in cinema.
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You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well.
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If I needed to know about a security exploit, I preferred to get the information by accessing the companies' security teams' files, rather than poring over lines of code to find it on my own. It's just more efficient.
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I was raised by muses. Women who had men in awe of them and who wrote them movies and wrote them music.
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I promise you... nobody cares about your business except for you. Nobody.
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I think in general, doing The X-Factor with the Steve Aoki song was the most difficult time, but also weirdly the most rewarding as well. I definitely felt like I couldn't do it, and then I definitely felt the support from everyone around me, the friends and family but also the fans and people outside of that.
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If you're creating anything at all, it's really dangerous to care about what people think.
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I lost the good stuff on my fastball. I had to come up with something to keep me in the league. The knuckler rescued me then.
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story.
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I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.
