George Perez Quotes
Most of my best friends ended up being women, most notably my wife, and I learn a lot by simply listening.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I like independent films... European films. I do go and see popular films as well because my kids force me.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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I like men who paint or write or do something creative.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
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In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I just don't watch a lot of TV.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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As a youngster, when I started writing and stuff, I did actually write more from other people's perspectives. When I hit 18 and something happened to me that hurt me, I discovered that writing the truth is really therapeutic and amazing.
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Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
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It's difficult to be at events with a room full of women who weigh half as much as you do.
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But when all was said the important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
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Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.
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Most of my best friends ended up being women, most notably my wife, and I learn a lot by simply listening.
