Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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Just knowing how to rap doesn't necessarily mean that you're a good songwriter.
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Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
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I think I'm a better doctor than I am a husband. I give myself a good grade as a doctor, then the next best grade as a father, and the worst grade as a husband.
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When we talk career, we get into an argument. In Hindi films, she is facing the same problems I did. If a K. Balachander hadn't come along to do 'Ek Duuje Ke Liye' with me in Hindi, I wonder what would've happened to me! I would have suffered much worse because Shruti is far more savvy than me.
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As an American I wanted to explore... why are we the only first world country that still has capital punishment? Is it because we're too afraid to really examine the system, or is it because we really truly believe that this is the best way to deter future crime?
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You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
