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.
Nastassja Kinski -
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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Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat.
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I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
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Our record was uploaded on the internet a long time before the release date, losing us unknown amounts of sales. Warners tracked it and found it was a Rolling Stone journalist’s listening copy. They even had his name. Barney was livid, wanting to prosecute the guy immediately, but on reflection Warners thought better of it. I guess they needed Rolling Stone. Our sales on Get Ready would be about 300,000 worldwide. Republic sold three million. Warners reckoned that drop was entirely due to illegal file-sharing.
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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.
