Fat Joe Quotes
I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
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By 9:30 at night, I go to bed.
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Even though I got a late start, first publishing an essay when I was 50 years old, I've since written eight suspense novels.
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The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.
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You're going to see this 'Internet of things' start demanding network performance and making the networks much more aware of what is on top of them.
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off.
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
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I'm going to start a new career as a singer, I think. I'm going to go the way of Russell Crowe.
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There was a point in the late '90s where all the graduating M.B.A.'s wanted to start companies in Silicon Valley, and for the most part they were not actually qualified to do it.
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I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.
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I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.
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You may grow very quickly the first two years and then watch the business decline, unless you really start selling product at any price range with various degrees of quality.
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.
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When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the daylight starts changing, I want to be out West.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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What it is now is basically, I'll sit on my computer; I basically kind of play the computer as an instrument, I guess you could say. I guess I play the Mac. And how it works is, say - I have a program called 'Ableton Live.' And, you know, you'll open it up, and it's just blank. There's nothing there. And then you start.
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
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I woke up many mornings not knowing what I'd done the night before. I'm amazed I'm not dead.
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If I could play any superhero... my favorite superhero is Spider-Man. Andrew Garfield is wonderful at doing it to the point that I don't think I should play it.
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I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.
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I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how often it happened and what the motives were. I started looking into what was going on back then, and I was blown away by how common hijacking once was.
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Business has to be done with both head and heart.
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I started out in the Apollo Theater. That's where I got my start. I won Amateur Night four weeks in a row.
