Robert Rodriguez Quotes
When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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Even great actors shine brighter in the right atmosphere.
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I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
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I crave a cone of silence every once in while.
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A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.
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'The Daily Show,' at its core, is the answer to the nightly news.
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We live in a liberally free country founded by people who were liberal. They were beyond liberal - they were revolutionaries.
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When I emerged from drama school, I had no expectation that I would ever work in film.
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At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
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But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car.
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When you make an exploitation film, you always want to have a real issue. That's how they were always done.
