Kurtis Blow (Kurtis Walke) Quotes
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Star Wars was magnificent, but you could tell Darth Vader's ships were glued together.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
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And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it.
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I think we need people with stronger ideals than John Kerry or Bill Clinton. I think we need people with more courage and vision.
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I struggled with the pressure of having the successful record after the first record. Second album syndrome. I'm living proof; it's very real. It was like a psychological battle to be creative. I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I'm used to doing independent film where the style is a lot more casual. With improvising, you obviously find so much out on the day - and in a way, I feel more comfortable doing that.
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I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.
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It's often the case that great artists - people like Bruce Springsteen - tend to pick up the subterranean rumblings of profound social change long before the economic statisticians notice them. Changes start long before they become statistics.
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All you can do is the best you can do.
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In 2004, results from a study that I worked on with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, linked chronic stress to shortening of telomeres.
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You always said the cards would never do you wrong.The trick you said was never play the game too long.A gambler's share.The only risk that you would take.The only loss you could forsakeThe only bluff you couldn't fake.
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I would rather die than be a serious artist, or a fake artist.
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The fake news and the lying doesn't surprise me anymore. The one thing we know he is consistent about, Trump, is lying.
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When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.
