Nile Rodgers Quotes
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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I think violence can never be justified.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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'The Outsiders' cast in particular was a joy to be around - sweet kids, normal goofy teenagers off camera and serious artists on. They were great. I never got them mixed up with the characters, though. Each of them had his own strong personality.
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What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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While we can work hard at improving our health, size is no more in our control than the color of our skin, our ethnicity, or our sexual preference.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.
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Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other people don't.
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I only work with people I like.
