Nelson Rodrigues Quotes
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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Working with Angela Bassett is by far the best. I've watched and admired her for years. I'm very intrigued by her work. She's so cool. I still call her 'Mom' when I see her.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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I don't follow anything blindly. I have to know the entire thing, if I have to get in to it. It might sound funny to you, but it's like using English language. I use an English word only when I know its meaning and understand its connotation. You won't hear me say, 'What's up, dude' or anything like that just for the heck of it.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Working with Sturges was like working with a guy who wanted to have a party all the time. He was very serious about his work, but in between shots, he was fun and we would play games.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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The people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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Life is tragic and absurd, and none of it has any purpose at all.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
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I'm not really the one in my family who knows everything that's going on, because I don't really pay attention.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, p. 461
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I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
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When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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Now that people know who I am, I get offered plays here and there. It was so much easier to do it when nobody knew who I was. I can't even imagine that somebody would come and pay money just to come and see me now.
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All that exists that can be denied deserves to be denied; and being truthful means: to believe in an existence that can in no way be denied and which is itself true and without falsehood.
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Money buys everything, even true love.
