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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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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Because my parents are Indian, everybody speaks Hindi to me, and I have no idea what they are saying.
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I love edgy comedy. 'Coming to America' still gets me and 'Friday.' I watch old Richard Pryor stand-up on VHS, too.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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Chemo days make me tired, though it's hard to say that's because of the chemo when you have kids who have inherited their dad's usual energy level.
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A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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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.
