Robert Rodriguez Quotes
I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.
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I can't even go down to the park anymore back home in Newark, New Jersey because my homeboys won't let me play. They tell me I'm too big time, too Hollywood, so they won't let me play out there no more.
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My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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When I walk for a designer, I walk the ramp as Vijender Singh, the boxer. I believe that by doing so, boxing will at least, in some way, get promoted in our entertainment industry. Plus, if cricketers can, why can't I?
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I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit.
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Early in my career, I sometimes found it difficult to make the tough people decisions - I had to learn that. In business, you want to listen. You want to learn. You want to make sure you're not proceeding without information. But if you wait too long, you can actually hurt an organization even more.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some historical questions, and I'm grappling with ways to make sense of history; why it still haunts us in our most intimate relationships with each other, but also in our political decisions.
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I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.
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History sometimes makes fun of us and our best intentions.
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I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
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Although I don't get the parts in films or other television shows that would be befitting of a huge, international star, I don't have to worry about walking around on the street or eating at a restaurant. Occasionally, you do get recognized a little bit. And that's fine. Most people are pretty cool about it. That's the thing - it's such a low-key thing that I can still enjoy it and not worry about it.
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To women, a flip-flopper is the functional equivalent of the guy who never calls and always changes his mind.
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I do like strong women in my movies. I have five sisters, so I've just grown up with that model.
