Rumi Quotes
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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Sometimes I'm not even aware of some of the issues going on with me in my life until I sit down and start kind of looking for inspiration, trying to find something that inspires that creativity.
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Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.
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I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
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If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.
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Taking care of your employees is extremely important and very, very visible.
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I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
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Doing nothing while the middle class is hurting. That's not leadership. Loose regulations and lax enforcement. That's not leadership. That's abandoning our middle class.
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The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
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I can't play my songs on the smaller harp. I have a Celtic harp. I can't do the key changes.
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The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register.
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I still want to kiss you. To feel the life in you seize on the life in me. Raw and fresh and new.
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I don't get my inspiration from a specific source. It's more like if you listen to a good tune, it gives me inspiration to write a better tune.
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If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
