Trevor George Smith Jr. (Busta Rhymes) Quotes
New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I've always loved life, irrespective of all the ups and downs that have filled my journey.
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If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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I'm a huge fan of the first 'Independence Day.' It is amazing. When it came out in 1995, just how explosive and big it was... I loved it.
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Unfortunately, the greatest photographers don't pay extreme attention to the clothes. If they decide to put a dress in a bathtub or in front of a cow in the countryside with dirt everywhere, well, the dresses come back... ready to be put in the garbage.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
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I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.
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In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.
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Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are great poets, small poets, and men and women who make verses. But all are not poets, nor even good versifiers. Poetasters are plentiful, but real poets are rare. Education can not make a poet, though it may polish and develop one.
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Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.
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We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.
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We intend to do peaceful, non-violent disobedience because that's what is covered (by the media), ... If it takes that, we'll do it.
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I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.
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My intention was to create a work of art which would transcend the visible, which cannot be perceived except in stages, with the understanding that it is a partial revelation and not the perpetuation of the existing. My aim is to show what can be seen within the limits of possibility which exists in the midst of coming into being.
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New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the hustlers and go-getters.
