Fat Joe Quotes
I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.'
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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It is very wrong to sleep in your make-up, but when you wake up the next morning, I think it looks very good.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).
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I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.
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If you have the feeling that something is wrong, don't be afraid to speak up.
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I was really from the streets, and I really did hustle in a major way. When I got my record deal, I left the streets alone as far as hustling. I never, ever hustled again. I said, 'I'm gonna change my life, I'm going legit. This is where I'm at.'
