Breckin Meyer Quotes
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Here's proof that if you live long enough, anything is possible.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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I was happy to be with my parents. I didn't see very much of them, so I was very happy when my father was there and out of jail.
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I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
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This is an exciting time. I believe we stand at the edge of a new age - a Golden Age - of freedom that will rival any of the great eras of world history because it will be the entire world itself that is changing.
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You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we're talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
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I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.
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Give to God just one thought of sincere love and longing and He responds: 'My child, one silent call from the depths of your soul, and I am there in an instant.'
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There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.
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If I have an iPod, I'm good.
