David Gest Quotes
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I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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Conformity is dangerous.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.
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I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.
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We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.
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It's very strange: I watch a lot of interviews with other actors that I know saying, 'Oh we had a great time; we're best buddies,' and I know for a fact that they didn't, and they actually hated each other.
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T.V.'s weird because it's both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.
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I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.
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I'm into women. I've always loved women.
