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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If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
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I wonder if books become in essence "files" if people wouldn't write them differently. I'm used to writing print books and I enjoy the slowness of the whole process. It makes me more deliberate about everything I say.
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Sometimes the best coaching advice you can get is simple acknowledgement that there's nothing else you could have done.
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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.
