Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I'm just kind of focused on playing the game and try to get better at certain things and wipe the slate clean every night.
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As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.
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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
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I know I have a hit show on my hands.
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Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.
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Every time we do a new record, we do the best we can. For us, every record is stepping into the ring with another heavyweight champion.
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At the end of the day, I think the most conservative principle there is, is giving people a dollar worth of value for a dollar worth of tax paid.
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My frontal lobe doesn't function well. When I'm out with friends, I typically have a cup of coffee, and that's not good for my sleep. And yet I'll do it again, night after night - 'Oh why did I have that cup of coffee?' I can't stop it because I love it.
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This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.
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I believe and still believe that the Chinese government puts great weight on the experience of the Bank in terms of development.
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I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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I'm from this working class town on the fringes of the rural aspects of Lancashire.
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The way 'Lux' was made is that there are 12 sections in here, though two of them are joined together. So there are really 11 sections, in a sense, and each one uses five notes out of a palette of seven notes, and my palette is all the white notes on the piano. That was the original palette.
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Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates.
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If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.
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It's great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it's wonderful to think that we've turned a few people on to jazz over the years.
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A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.
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I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.
