Diplo (Thomas Wesley Pentz Jr.) Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Sir, I see a lot of documents in my day-to-day business, and I can't tell you every document that I've seen. It may have passed across my desk. It may not have passed across my desk. I truthfully cannot answer that question, other than to say I don't remember.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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I like to read in the bathtub. Ideally, that bathtub would be located on a small Greek island.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
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I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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I kind of do think of myself as a superhero and just flying high, and doing these crazy flips.
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All things flow, nothing abides.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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I don't get as much female attention as you'd think, because I never go out.
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Attention. That's all girls want.
