Eli Roth Quotes
When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
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During the Cold War, we were interested because we were scared that Russia and the United States were going to go to war. We were scared that Russia was going to take over the world. Every country became a battleground.
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.
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If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
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It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-'80s, and we had the '85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.
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Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.
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So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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The favourites and the stronger teams have a lot of pressure during the group phase because everybody just takes it for granted that they will reach the round of 16.
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The social risks that worry us are not a random bundle of frights.
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I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.
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My friend was on dialysis for six years before he got a new kidney. I was on dialysis for eight months. I'm almost not even the typical person who has kidney failure.
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When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.
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I wanted to be a writer as a teen... so storytelling was my first love. In my late teens, design became an obsession as I realized that I could express myself through the medium. Much later, when I founded Fuseproject in 1999, our slogan became 'design brings stories to life.'
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It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
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I hate it when I go out and I see parents going, 'don't do that', or 'stop doing that' when some kid's just hanging off a staircase or something. There's too much of this, 'don't do that'. The whole thing baffles me.
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The fact remains; chauvinism is prevailing.
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If we didn't spend so much time reacting to things, we would spend less time feeling bothered. We would be able to relax in our lives the way our mind relaxes in meditation.
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When you're making a television show, it's about the story and arc of the show rather than any particular episode or director.
