Nas (Nasir Bin Olu Dara Jones) Quotes
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I still have a fear of theater. I don't know if I will manage that. I used to do it. I developed a bit of a phobia. It's not a real phobia. I can go in and watch.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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The police must obey the law while enforcing the law.
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I've never had an audition like that before. They don't let you know about anything on 'Mad Men,' because it's a spoiler for everybody. I thought I was on the right track when I was cracking everybody up.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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The most influential thinker, in my life, has been the psychologist Richard Nisbett. He basically gave me my view of the world.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see anything special there. I do all the same things other human beings and creatures do. I don't see any need to be telling the data of the day of this particular human being by posting it on online. It's not interesting to me.
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.
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I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the years, I've really gained an appreciation for melody. What's cool is that when you're singing, you have to be concise, and when you're rapping, you have the opportunity to be really detailed with your lyrics.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
