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Richard E. Robbins Quotes

I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.

Richard E. Robbins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american

Topics

Family Me Ideas Comfort Zone Busy

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

Pause Nuclear Achieved Halt

Our 'realities' are make-believe - whatever we make ourselves believe, we experience.

Experience Believe Whatever Make Our

'Snow White and the Huntsman' was - I came in before they started shooting and basically worked on Charlize Theron's character for the most part. I guess I probably worked four or five weeks on that one and stayed during production a little bit with them.

John Lee Hancock

Snow Character White Shooting Little

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Mind Be True True Either Believes

Online, offline, it's gotta be the same.

Angela Ahrendts

Same Online Gotta

That's one thing I like to do before going in for a read - doing research once I actually have been granted the role - is to look up people's names.

People Research Doing Look Names Up

There are simply too many Academy members who were voted in during a less inclusive era and still remain a large voting bloc even though they haven't worked in the field for decades.

Roger Ross Williams

Voting Inclusive Still Who Even Era

Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It's a bit more hood. You see things; things happen. I was bouncing between worlds. You're acting from a very early age, when you have to code-switch like that. I'm a hybrid, a mongrel. I think many people live that life.

Life Live Age People Think Hood

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Mind Anything Like

I was going out dancing in clubs around New York, and that helped create 'Supermassive Black Hole.' Franz Ferdinand would have done it very well with that dance-type beat going on mixed with alternative guitar, and I've always wanted to find that.

New York Black Guitar Find Create

In the U.K., my mother had been the breadwinner. I'd seen my parents side by side. In Saudi Arabia, my mother was basically rendered disabled. She was unable to drive, dependent on my dad for everything. The religious zealotry was so suffocating.

Mother Parents Drive She Everything

I'm old enough to remember when 'Law and Order' was once the Republican campaign slogan.

Law Enough Remember Old Republican

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