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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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 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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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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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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For me, genres are a way for people to easily categorize music. But it doesn't have to define you. It doesn't have to limit you.
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Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
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I feel like by me putting on a couple more pounds will help my game tremendously. Putting on 10-15 pounds will help me stop the run better and be a more dominant pass rusher.
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I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terrible, and they can bring something to it and make it really special. I can't.
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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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.
