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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When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.
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The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
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That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!
