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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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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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 clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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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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With the black male as a teenager, where you're coming from the ghettos and that kind of stuff, you've got to assert yourself, be macho, not let anybody walk over you, so that's where all this unnecessary bullshit comes from - from egos. That's why there are a lot of fights. That's how come the whole thing with rap has been violent. It's because of the male ego.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark nightI can see paradise by the dashboard light.
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You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights. I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.
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All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
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Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
