Robert Rodriguez Quotes
Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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America's grossly unfair tax system won't lead to class war. Or, if it does, the war will be brief.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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New synthetic substances - steel, concrete, glass - are actively superseding the traditional raw materials of construction.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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I was a very awkward high schooler, especially in early high school.
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It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!
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Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.
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The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.
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The problems we face aren't Democratic problems or Republican problems. These are Maryland's problems.
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If we didn't have the rest of the world growing, the United States economy would be in much worse shape than it is today.
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I feel squeezed like a lemon - interviewers and people keep turning up unannounced at my office!
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I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
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I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.
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Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.
