Wayne Kramer Quotes
I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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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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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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I took this 'how to build computers' course basically because I'm sick and tired of getting ripped off by cheesy computer companies. Software baffles me. I like hardware. I used to change my own oil, and now I want to build my own computer so I can have what I want.
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Hip-hop has globalized a conception of blackness that has had a political impact, whether or not it had a political intent.
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I think art can reflect tragedy.
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Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.
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I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.
