Amy Rodriguez Quotes
I want to do well for my son. I want to be a positive role model and show him that he can do anything if he puts his mind to it.
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My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
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I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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The people that I admire have a wonderful balance of self-belief and humility.
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I see potential in everything. It's about opening your mind to what you can do to the garment: because they're cheap, you can cut them or stitch them, and if you stuff it up, it's fine - it's only two dollars.
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I never taught my girls to play golf; they all played softball.
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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
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The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in order to produce the product.
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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If you're doing television, you get to be a character for a long time, and the cast around you becomes like family. You get attached to playing that one character, and it's hard leaving them behind.
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The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true.
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I got the role because the producer thought I looked tired, but I looked tired because I had been jogging earlier that day.
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Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only lament was: My son did this to me. I begged her: You must forgive your son. In a moment of madness, when he was not himself, he did a thing he regrets. Be a mother to him, forgive him. It took me a long time to make her say: I forgive my son. Just before she died in my arms, she was able to say that with a real forgiveness. She was not concerned that she was dying. The breaking of the heart was that her son did not want her. This is something you and I can understand.
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We have very professional, amazing chefs that are contestants. Most of them have their own restaurants and are settled, recognized chefs in Mexico. That gives the show Top Chef a different level completely; the gastronomic level is very high. It makes it all more interesting and the competition is just harder and harder.
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I want to do well for my son. I want to be a positive role model and show him that he can do anything if he puts his mind to it.
