Malik Bendjelloul Quotes
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
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In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.
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Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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We don't have a war on terror - that's a technique. We didn't have a war on blitzkriegs, and we didn't have a war on surprise attacks.
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I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.
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I've been a closet lover of faux-reality TV since 'The Hills'. It's bad.
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A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Everything I post online is curated.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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When you get into a car, and there's trash, or it's dirty, or one of the hubcaps is off, you're like, 'Come on, dude.' Every woman likes the confidence and self-respect that says, 'I get oil changes. I look after my vehicle.' That's what I recommend: Act like you don't care, but take care of your body.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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I had this thesis that we had entered the experience economy. People were getting married later and starting to value experiences like travel over owning things.
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To London's Europhiles, Britain is obviously 'part of' Europe. But, in the age of jet travel, cellphones, wire transfers and the internet, we are less bound by physical proximity than ever. Yet Britain for the first time in history has chosen to be imprisoned by geography and to disconnect itself from its own culture.
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Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
