Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
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I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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The song 'Innocent' is a song that I wrote about something that really, really emotionally impacted me.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd. I always have a DJ with me on the road, as well as some dancers.
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For me, one of the big things I really worried about a lot was nuclear war growing up.
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I'd like to think that we strive in film and theatre to tell great stories, and I believe in the power of storytelling in our culture.
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I think every character I've ever come up with has been based on someone or something I've known.
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Shoes are my love language, and women love shoes.
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If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
