Robert Rodriguez Quotes
I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
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I have vowed never to take antibiotics again unless I really need them. I also learned to pay attention to my body, know the difference between indigestion, an allergic reaction to food, a parasitic infection or worms. It's incredible how well I know my body. I really love that.
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.
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I was for civil unions and believed strongly that the flow of benefits and protections that would be provided in a civil union for same-sex couples, the decisions that have to be made, when health hardships are faced, when economic hardships are faced, I wanted all of those protections. I never strayed from them.
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I've got nothing to be ashamed of.
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My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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Don Was is a friend of mine; we've done projects together over the years.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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It's very important to feel foreign. I was born in England, but when I'm being a writer, everyone in England is foreign to me.
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I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies.
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Denzel Washington is a person I will always emulate. I emulate him because he focuses on real life. Because of that he has made me a better person.
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People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.
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Perhaps there is no other way of reaching some understanding of being than through art? Writers themselves don't analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.
