Eli Roth Quotes
'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I love cooking and baking.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I shampoo every other day and only do the roots. I can't shampoo all the way down to the end, because it will dry my hair out. I use a mask multiple times a week to restore moisture.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
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In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.
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The whole system of society tells you what to do.
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'Cabin Fever' was very much inspired by 'The Thing.' It's really a perfect guy's horror movie: There's no love story, it's just straight-up horror. And it's so well-done. It moves at a slow pace, but it's really terrific.
