Matthew Arnold Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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You want to come home to a nice firm bed with the corners tucked in so you start over, like each night is like a new night.
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.
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Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
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Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.
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But when we sit together, close,’ said Bernard, ‘we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.
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The true purpose of the strong is to promote greater strength in the weak, and not to keep the weak in that state where they are at the mercy of the strong.
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This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
