Eli Roth Quotes
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On election night 2000, I had never met then-Governor Bush, though I'd supported him for years. I believed he would be a strong, optimistic and gracious president with solid conservative principles and a big heart.
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I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.
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My mom was my main influence growing up, and Phylicia Rashad reminded me a lot of my mother, just the way she handled certain things, she was... not soft-spoken but smooth-spoken. Just very calm, cool, collected about things.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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I knew that Chelsea was a club that changed its manager reasonably often.
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I feel like science and art are cousins.
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I stopped modeling so I could go to drama school at the William Esper Studio. It's Meisner.
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
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I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
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When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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England was merry England, whenOld Christmas brought his sports again.‘Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale;‘Twas Christmas told the merriest tale;A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man’s heart through half the year.
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… the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
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Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
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We are going to have perhaps a thousand years of non-representational painting.
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I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.
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Unless it's a specific accent, or something about physicality you have to change, I am generally not such a conscious actor.
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A lot of times I watch TV and I watch film and there's so many things I'd love to talk about that I feel don't get the opportunity to be shown. Sometimes things become very stereotypical and one-sided, and I feel like it's such a colorful world.
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It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down
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I don't know what's in store for me, but I know that I want to create work, and I want to create an environment where I can bring in my favorite people and collaborate with them, and do something that is so much weirder and so different from what you'd see in commercial film.
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Twitter is wonderful. You can kill rumours instantly.
