Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
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Well, my type is obviously creative. Creative, with burning eyes and a pretty mouth.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad.
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I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.
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I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened, so I was familiar with that mythology.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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At one time if you were a black writer you had to be one of the best writers in the world to be published. You had to be great. Now you can be good. Mediocre. And that's good.
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I think that a lot of kids today focus on impressing each other. And while that's really nice, you also have to think about your future, about getting into a good school.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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It's much funnier when the comedy can happen with me just trying my best to genuinely do a good thing.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
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From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.
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You love the game, but it's hard to do the things you do when you're feeling like you're a leg down all the time, literally. Or you're always beat up, even coming into the season. So it's just not as fun when you're down, and you got to work your way up. And you can't really get there because you're so beat up.
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I have a no-apology policy.
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Growing up, you hear Tupac's music, it's kind of like... it goes without saying that everyone likes Tupac.
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Ten years is a pretty good run for anything.
