Kaytranada Quotes
'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.
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Every year is pressure. You need to put in on yourself to go out and perform.
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I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that, it would happen anyway just because of how I present as a woman, or as a person. I present in a way that's not stereotypical, even if I'm playing a stereotypical role.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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Tell you the truth, the night before, I don't sleep. It's exciting to be in postseason, you fight one-hitter 62 games, you make it.
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Honestly, I think a good film is spiritual, regardless of whether its subject is faith.
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I am very lucky and grateful to have this living link to a past era, the violin presumably having much more history to it than the later portion that I know.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
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Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.
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Basically, as soon as I saw that there was a role available on '24,' I jumped at it, and then when I sat down and talked to them, it seemed to get more interesting and more fun.
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Actors are seen as celebrities, but they're just real people with families.
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
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I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time. But, like most writers, you start off feeling your way.
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We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
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In many ways, 'What Teachers Make: In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World' is just one big thank-you note to my teachers. The book is dedicated to my fifth and sixth grade English teacher, Dr. Joseph D'Angelo, a massive force of erudition, martial artistry, culture, and love.
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Mike Judge is my Jonathan Swift, and I say that because I don't know any other satirists. But the problem with satire is that it's so easily misinterpreted.
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I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.
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I'm usually a patient guy anyway.
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During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might have to go, like my grandfather, uncles and others who left for America, Egypt, Australia, Cuba.
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I wonder what the retirement age is in the novel business. The day you die.
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I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
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'99.9%' is the end product of years and years of me going through multiple styles and interests.
