Brendan Fraser Quotes
They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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There are too many people around keeping me grounded to go off the rails. I'm my own person.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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I have changed the style of functioning of the government and administration and managed to change the perception.
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My dream role would be to act with Denzel again!
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Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
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I thought I would hate New York, but I love New York. I almost hate to say that being from Chicago.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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Along the way, I learned a lot about being told I didn't have the right skills for the jobs I wanted and how to overcome the setbacks and keep pushing forward. This is why I've become an Ambassador for LifeSkills, a programme created by Barclays to help one million young people get the skills they need for work.
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I had a lot of really terrible advice early in my writing career and I cheesed off people without even knowing it, all the while thinking I was implementing good advice.
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Who needs one more chef in one more building with four walls and a kitchen?
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They had a hard time miking me in my loin cloth, I mean, where were they gonna tape it?
