Joakim Noah Quotes
I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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At the end of the day, we're just trying to be honest and, hopefully, get more females on the radio.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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I'm gonna drop fitty. I'm gonna drop fitty pounds. How many quarter-pounders with cheeses is that? I'm gonna drop 200 quarter-pounder with cheeses.
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There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.
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Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'
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I know how demanding the process of creation is.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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I want to do movies but not talk about them.
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Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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Luckily, West End audiences seem to rather like very old people.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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I have always had huge respect for comedians/comediennes. It's because comedy is very hard to portray.
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Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point.
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Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.
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I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.
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There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
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A student comes to me with a piece of writing, holds it out, says, 'Is this good?' A whole sequence of emergencies goes off in my mind. That's not a question to ask anyone but yourself.
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DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.
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I feel like when I play, I play tough. That's the New York in me. That's the street tournaments.
