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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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
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I have the idea that running shoes are based on a kind of cult idea - that our feet are flawed and we need shoes to correct those flaws. The shoe companies are in the business of selling shoes. But there's no evidence from running shoe manufacturers that they're right. There's no scientific data that running shoes reduce injury.
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Black history is part of American history, and it should be treated as such.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I think my main two songs are 'FWU' and 'Get Away.' 'FWU' made a cool point because it came out right after Chris Brown's 'Loyal' came out. I combated it with 'FWU,' a song that basically says, 'These women are loyal.'
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I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.
Garry Kasparov
