Eli Roth Quotes
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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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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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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I come from a poor family, so really, the culture I know best is the street, TV, school.
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Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down. Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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It's profoundly disorienting to go from zero to celebrity.
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I didn't have the welfare. I didn't have the proper education. I didn't have these things. That's why it's almost like a complex in me that I want to explode myself in my films.
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We didn't exist. Ronald Reagan didn't say the word 'AIDS' until 1987. I've tried desperately to get a meeting in the White House; Gay Men's Health Crisis is already an established organization. I have a certain presence.
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I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight.
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I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.
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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.
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One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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That's important for artists to remember: some people would like to be spokespeople, but others would like their art to speak.
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
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I don't like planning, because it robs me of freedom, so I'd like a 24 hours that was full of surprises.
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Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist.
