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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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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The only people who never fail are those who never try.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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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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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
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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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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
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Everybody wants to have the president talk about their issue.
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Sometimes impossible things are entirely possible, if there's magic enough in the world.
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This truth-to prove, and make thine own: ‘Thou hast been, shalt be, art, alone.’
