Omar Ahmad Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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It's some weird idea to think that you've always got to say everything is great and perfect.
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For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
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One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.
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Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle, on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair-holding his wrists like Lifar-and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.
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Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.
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I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
