Poppy Z. Brite Quotes
Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
Poppy Z. Brite
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
Damian Marley
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
Otto Schily
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow
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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.
Ralph Peters
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
Laura Esquivel
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Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.
D. B. Sweeney
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It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
Rachel McAdams
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Ralph Bakshi
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I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.
Taylor Swift
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
Jackson Browne
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I was once supposed to play the wind in a commercial - yes, the wind. I didn't get it.
Wagner Moura
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I really love research. It's one of the things I love most about my job. I feel like it's me in the lab cooking up the character.
Kerry Washington
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Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.
Sadie Robertson
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I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.
Ian McLagan
Small Faces
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Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
Paige Craig
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One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests.
Barack Obama
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Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.
Poppy Z. Brite