Amy Rodriguez Quotes
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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Walking by water frees your creativity. I don't know how it works - there's something about it that's liberating.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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If the day comes where I can have my own action figure... I defy any actor to say that's not a good day.
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I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I'm still learning my craft, and I've been writing since I was nine.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.
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I wrote about Alan Turing, the great mathematician and code-breaker. He was an absolutely different person, certainly more brilliant than I ever will be.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I always try to visualize the task at hand and the outcome through positive thought.
