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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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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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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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
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Unfair discrimination exists whether we like it or not; I wouldn't have married a gum-chewing vegetarian. Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.
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Real emotion is good - or doing a good job of faking real emotion.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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I feel like my body is borrowed and this life is very temporary.
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We go out there and kill it every night, and you can see what this means to people.
