Garry Kasparov Quotes
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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Charlie Sheen gave me a signed headshot. I think it said, 'Keep it real.' But 'real' was spelled 'reel,' like a film reel.
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I have to say, sushi freaks me out more than almost anything.
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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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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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There's more to me, you know? I'm not Macaulay Culkin, 'Home Alone' kid. I'm Macaulay Culkin... actor.
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I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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On the clothes front, I have a designer who sits with the director for each film to chalk out a look for me based on the script.
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If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.
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In Los Angeles, as I gained and lost celebrity, then gained it again, I often found myself wondering why I, out of thousands like me, had become famous.
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People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don't wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.
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I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov
