Robert Zemeckis Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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I aspire only to silence.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Our culture is at its best when we protect and encourage the weakest. Every life - at every stage, in every place - has a dignity beyond our imagining.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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China's government is so strong on investment, so strong on exporting, but they're too weak on domestic consumption.
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I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Custard is controversial: what makes it a custard, how best to cook it and, crucially, is it to be eaten or put in a pie and thrown?
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.
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I need to be competing. Coaching is good, but I like to be in the fire.
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In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
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You have to wake up and you have to run if you want to survive.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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Before the release of my film, small or big, the feeling is always the same.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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I love Keri Russell. I watched every episode of Felicity, and Waitress is my favorite film from last year. She's just an amazing actress. And I like her voice a lot - it didn't surprise me that she would be doing voiceover work.
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There are no impossible dreams.
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I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums.
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I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so I was sort of partially Amish. When I go back there now I still get into that culture. I can drive a horse and buggy because they don't use cars. And, of course, there's no electricity. I respect them a lot. The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to like Little House on the Prairie days or something.
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Favorite movie lists are impossible for me to do.
