M. Shadows Quotes
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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My label understands that I am really attached to Malaysia, that I come home a lot.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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I'm not better than anyone else.
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We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
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Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.
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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.
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Not everybody is going to love what you do, but you have to be yourself, that's what's most important. Bring it as hard as you can.
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We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.
