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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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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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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I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.
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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
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I was getting in my own way. I would quit jobs and step out on hope and faith, and pray to God that I would book something that would allow me to just continue to act.
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You thought, as a boy, that a mage is one who can do anything. So I thought, once. So did we all. And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do...
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When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.
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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.
