Robert Rodriguez Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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I like to leave a film open-ended, with a lingering feeling. I'll not do sequels of any of my films till I have subjects to explore.
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I was really inspired by these larger-than-life female artists like Lee Bontecou and Eva Hesse and Yvonne Rainier and the incredible Lynda Benglis. There were many women who were really driven and became successful, who were part of essential paradigm shifts, despite the fact that the art world was still dominated by men.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man.
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Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.
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As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
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I love to travel the world. My husband and I always travel and everywhere we go I've been to Italy, of course London, Ireland, and you just receive so much love.
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The old world of England was picturesque and safe in a way that L.A. wasn't, but it was so amazingly socially cruel. I had never experienced that in America - never in school, nowhere.
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History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
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Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.
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Before a long-haul flight, buy yourself a cheap, big, comfortable pillow. It makes a huge difference.
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There was a time in my early 20s when I would leave a movie theater and just feel so alone and lonely afterwards. I just felt like my life was nothing like those characters up on the screen, so perfect all the time. Why didn't I talk like that? Why don't I look like that?
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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If you really get into a particular character, you also want to do your own stunts.
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I have so many friends who don't know how to cook.
