Babatunde Adebimpe Quotes
Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.
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I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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Not all my work features black actors. I mean, it's funny: someone was reading back to me all the languages that have appeared in my films, whether they were shorts or features. They span Arabic, French, Mandarin, Cantonese - all kinds of languages. I think it's really cool.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.
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Hemingway's minimalism is based on the psychological mechanics of repression. An echo of his approach can be detected in a favorite trope of 1980s minimalists: a pattern of reference to dire secrets and hidden wounds these authors didn't realize they were supposed to have imagined.
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I'm still Christian. I was not raised in a Christian church to hate people. I was taught to love people and accept people. I know what I believe.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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I am a gypsy. I havent' had a home for a long time. Call me a homeless person - I just throw everything in a bag and I'm good to go.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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It's part of the magic of 'Game of Thrones,' all the secrets.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.
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When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit.
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The mere habit of writing, of constantly keeping at it, of never giving up, ultimately teaches you how to write.
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Adding instruments to parts of a song and having them somehow find a pocket. That to me was a huge lesson. Like, there's more than 808s in the universe.
