Nelson Rodrigues Quotes
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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When people see what I have now, they have no idea of where I came from and how I didn't have anything growing up.
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A fragmented film such as 'Babel' gives the impression of 'edginess' but, in its form, tells us nothing we didn't already know.
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I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.
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It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from collaborating to solve our common problems than competing for higher rankings.
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I will open an era of grand national unity.
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There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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As an actor, you most often play relatively average parts, so to get to play extreme versions of anything, those are the most exciting parts.
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In school I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it. And they really almost got me. They came close to really beating any curiosity out of me.
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I just got more aggressive. I didn't have the ball in my hands that much in the first half because I was playing the 2-guard. When they took John out of the game in the second half, I handled the ball more and I was able to make things happen for myself and my teammates.
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In soccer, the blindest player is the one who sees nothing but the ball.
