Eric Lynn Wright (Eazy-E) Quotes
Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
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I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.
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There is no other prize in any country that carries the prestige that a Nobel bestows.
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Pretend to be good always, and even God will be fooled.
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You're always aware that only eight per cent of actors are in work at one time, so you've got to be thankful for the job you've got and do the best you can.
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[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
