Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
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A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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I'm not going to tell the Palestinians how to arrange themselves. If they want to have their own entity and their own parliament as they do today, that's fine. If they want to connect to Jordan, which has a very big Palestinian population, and vote in the Jordanian government, that's fine.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
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In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.
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I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.
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I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.
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Growing up, I was always super into fantasy and 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'Game of Thrones' and all of that, but I could never find black characters whom I really liked.
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The Olympics is this big global event, but when neighbours come up and wish you well, it feels more personal.
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I just love to collaborate with people who take my ideas real serious, and they don't put up walls around them.
