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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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I like that old style of country music - it seems to me that a lot of the modern country music is rehashed rock n' roll.
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.
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Going on means going far, going far means returning.
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Who gave it that title, gangsta rap? It's reality rap. It's about what's really going on.
