DMX (Earl Simmons) Quotes
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I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.
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I taught myself to play the piano, because I wanted to play it.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Everybody has a story... and a scream.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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The Bureau doesn't have any secret files.
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I am permanently relaxed.
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I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.
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Be very nervous of the shaky hands.
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You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.
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Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!
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I don't think there's a quick fix to this. I don't think there's any simple way to deal with this. And I will not support amnesty for anybody, I mean, that would be rewarding bad behavior.
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My mother would beat me so bad, I wouldn't be able to sit down. And I would never snitch.
