Nile Rodgers Quotes
My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in.
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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New York has a deep culture of house and dance music, and to be able to tap into that is my way of shutting off. I go to friends' parties and local spots around the area: places I can go to, have a dance, and forget about being an actor and the attention.
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My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
