Burt Bacharach Quotes
I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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I know it sounds strange, but I'm one of those people who goes to a coffee shop to drink coffee.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
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Ain't no problem with me and Kevin Gates; everybody just trippin'.
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My brother does a series of movies called 'The Purge,' and they have the third one coming out this year, and then also he'll be starring in the second season of 'Secrets and Lies.' We want each other to win because we are a team, and this is how we've been since day one. That's the end game for all of us in the Hodge house.
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I thought, 'Oh that's what happens. You put a song out and everyone likes it.' Well, then a funny thing happened: I started putting more songs out, and none of them did the same thing.
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We have access to more resources in general, and they are not going to force a situation on us, whether its the producer, or the cover, or what songs we have to play. And it's a small enough company that it seems like the people there care about music and not just about business.
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Sometimes a little song is sweet to hear, even if the orchestra is more accomplished.
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Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.
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I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
