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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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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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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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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My professional life has nothing to do with my personal life and vice versa.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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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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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
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I was on 'The O.C.' and had a small part, which wasn't very challenging. I was a bit bored, so I started shadowing directors and they finally gave me a shot. From there, it led to directing other television shows. I am trying to direct a feature film, so we'll see what happens.
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China's movie industry is growing a lot faster than that of the U.S.
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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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Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.
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I would like to especially acknowledge my home community of Calgary, and the people of central Alberta who made my dream of freedom a reality.
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When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
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Success is not handed to you. You must work hard for it and you must never dishonor what you’ve achieved.
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I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It's not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.
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I don't know any filmmaker who can deconstruct their own work.
