R. K. Milholland Quotes
I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
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Hip-hop in Africa has been very often a duplication of an American experience, but in a context that's totally alien to it.
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I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I'm glad we turned into a big-time touring band later in life. In fact, it's almost like we planned it out that way.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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Israel is stronger than all those who curse it.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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I started working at the age of 2, doing commercials and modeling in New York.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I'm gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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America is a meritocracy.
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I started an all-girl punk band when I was 14, and I was the drummer, not the singer.
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For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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I will give away at least half my wealth during my lifetime and after my death. In the meantime, I'll continue to grow my wealth as much as possible so that the amount I bequeath to charities and worthy causes can be as substantial as possible.
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There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang.
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I guess that's how death works. It doesn't matter if we're ready or not. It just happens.
