Robert Rodriguez Quotes
That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
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I do try to structure everything in a way that's very much like a pop song. I try to keep the arrangements really simple, just to make everything essential.
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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When you're first learning how to do eyeliner, it's really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you're putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm's really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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The secret of happiness is the determination to be happy always, rather than wait for outer circumstances to make one happy.
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Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.
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I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
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Many great works of art, poetry, and music are inspired by astral memories. The desire to do noble, beautiful things here on Earth is also often a carryover of astral experiences between a person's earth lives.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But it isn't. Lower income workers are the ones who find it hardest to keep working after 65. And they'll get penalized with lower benefits.
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I have mugs of hot water every morning because the studio is cold, and also because it makes my throat sound clearer.
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To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes
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I go to correctional facilities and talk to kids there. They have little kids in there who are, like, 12 years old, stealing cars and stuff like that.
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You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction.
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That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
