Dr. Dre (Andre Romelle Young) Quotes
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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I'm always surprised when an actor goes so deeply into the truth that they shake you to your core.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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This job certainly doesn't win you a huge amount of friends, I accept that, but it is very enjoyable, and deep down I think it's probably quite a worthwhile job.
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Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that they're not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.
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To have art suppressed is very dangerous to society.
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You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.
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A lot of times, we talk about black people as if being black is all they are. They get up, go to work... and are as complex and interesting and variable as any other group of people. We don't often capture that or write about it.
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These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt.
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My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
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In the 1970s, I used to buy opals and moonstones at the Queen Victoria Market, which were seen as old-fashioned and too heavy at the time.
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My father is the oldest of seven boys.
