Malik Jackson Quotes
When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
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There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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A Central Bank official said that Q-coin did not affect the renminbi; it adds vibrancy to the economy.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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Green policy is about triggering a shift to a cleaner way of doing things. To be effective, it needs to incentivise the right behaviour, for example through tax breaks, and that needs to be paid for by disincentives on polluting behaviour.
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Precious gems are profoundly buried in the earth and can only be extracted at the expense of great labor.
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When you get your opportunities, you've just got to go with what they said... I'll do what's necessary wherever they put me.
