"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled……" — Robert Towne
"Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian."
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19 Quotes by Robert Towne
Robert Towne has 19 quotes on this site.
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People who can't think of anything else but whether the person you love is indented or convex should be doomed…
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Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
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If you have a good ear for dialogue, you just can't help thinking about the way people talk. You're drawn…
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And I think one way or another it's evident to those who work with me that as a writer, a…
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But, uh, censorship at that time said that you just absolutely couldn't do anything involving children and so we had…
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But time has caught up with it and I think vindicated it. Shampoo, too: very dark, very ambitious movie.
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Good dialogue illuminates what people are not saying
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What makes screenplays difficult are the things that require the most discipline and care and are just not seen by…
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I think that those are the things that you can uniquely do with film that are difficult to do anywhere…
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It was not possible to film in California, because all the areas are heavily built up now. Coming to Cape…
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Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid…
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I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's…
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be…
— Hannah Arendt
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If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person…
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
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The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.
— James A. Baldwin
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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious…
— Honore de Balzac
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I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.
— Eric Bana
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I've always been attracted to cars, and driving is a completely measurable experience: if you qualify last on the grid,…
— Eric Bana
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As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends…
— Eric Bana
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Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators.
— Dave Barry
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I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.
— Kate Beckinsale
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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