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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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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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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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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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
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Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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I think when an actor feels like they're being watched with great sensitivity and a subtle eye and a nose for truthfulness, that has some effect.
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It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.
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Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
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Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.
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The years went by so fast and, even though I've had children, which makes me feel I've lived a long time, I feel I didn't really grow up. I want to fulfill the desire I have to do things that are beautiful and meaningful.
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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.
