Eriq La Salle (Erik Ki La Salle) Quotes
The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
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I'm confident, motivated.
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My first film is coming out, and it's in 3D, and it's 'The Hobbit,' so it's a bit weird.
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I've only used my own voice about four times on film.
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I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.
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By the time we've made it, we've had it.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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'Blazing Saddles' is one of the funniest movies ever made.
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Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.
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Today too, the most important issue in the world is Palestine. If a war breaks out in Iraq, we believe it is due to the provocation of the Zionists. If it happens in Afghanistan, it is because of their provocation. If Sudan is oppressed, it is due to Zionist seduction. We consider all the arrogant, colonialist schemes to be inspired by the Zionists.
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The Rhapsody is not a composition at all. It's a string of separate paragraphs stuck together - with a thin paste of flour and water… I don’t think there has been such an inspired melodist on this earth since Tchaikovsky… but if you want to speak of a composer, that's another matter.
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One of the nice things about songwriting is you can be inspired by absolutely anything.
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I don't think people do anything out of fear very well. So I think the only choice is to have them intrinsically motivated.
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I have been motivated by this idea since I was a kid that if we invented machines that were created in the way that people are - were aware, have free will, inventive machines, machines that would be geniuses - potentially, they could reinvent themselves. They're not just applying it to other things - they could actually redesign themselves.
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I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
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I don't care where I fight on the card, but to get people motivated or excited, like, 'Cowboy's fighting!' that's my overall goal.
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Many of my projects are inspired by Indian mythology. We have read that in the ancient times, people could expand their body parts, extend arms - all of that reads like a dream. But all this can be done using technology based on simple solutions.
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My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.
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I do get motivated seeing Parineeti Chopra.
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I spent 15 years on the road between touring and recording and I never saw anything. I want to enjoy life.
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In the case of a film like The Exorcist or To Live and Die in L.A., I saw the whole movie in my head before I went to shoot it. I never did storyboards, or anything like that. I had the film in my head.
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I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side.'
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There is no such thing as a disembodied mind. The mind is implanted in the brain, and the brain is implanted in the body.
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So you find yourself surrounded by death and horror in the world, and you escape it into lust. But lust has no duration; it leaves you again in the desert.
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The films that have influenced me and the films that have motivated me and inspired me were films that resonated, films that made me think after I saw them.
