D'Angelo (Michael Eugene Archer) Quotes
I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.'
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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I don't have a director. The audience directs me.
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I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it well. That's just my character, that's just the way it is with me.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.
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The problem with listening, of course, is that we don't. There's too much noise going on in our heads, so we never hear anything. The inner conversation simply never stops. It can be our voice or whatever voices we want to supply, but it's a constant racket. In the same way we don't see, and in the same way we don't feel, we don't touch, we don't taste.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
