Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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For me, writing about hotels is like writing about being in a parallel universe. The sense of voyeurism, and the sense of removedness, and there are all these people silently above you and next to you.
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What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past.
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I worked at Starbucks when I was 16... It was all right.
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We don't have one of those houses where there's a rope that separates the kids' area from the adult area. There's a happy medium. It's all about fabric choices, accessories.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I would watch anything with Meryl Streep in it.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Breaks in trust are infuriating and hurtful, but they don't entitle you to flame out, throw a fit, or stomp around rolling your eyes. Try to keep the steam from coming out of your ears.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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Playing in the Neurotic Outsiders with John Taylor was great. A lot of pussy every time we played a gig. So many chicks. It was, like, 'Wow, John, really? So this is what it was like, huh?' And there would be like a couple guys with mohawks and a guy with, like, a jean jacket coming in to see me and Jonesy!
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
