Raoul Peck Quotes
Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.
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I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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This country is pretty amazing.
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But, in North Korea, it's just the opposite. There's one story. It's written by the Kim regime. And 23 million people are conscripted to be secondary characters. There, as a youth, your aptitude towards certain jobs is measured, and the rest of your life is dictated, whether you'll be a fisherman or a farmer or an opera singer.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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It's always been a lie that it's difficult to make films.
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I've come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.
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America has absorbed people from around the world, and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have co-existed in their natural temperament.
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So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's own efforts.
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I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
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People ask me about the decision to transition from fashion to 'Rookie' magazine. But it wasn't a decision. I was 14, and my interests were changing.
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I went into academia thinking that there'd be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.
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Things whispered here, and the trees muttered with the wind and perhaps with other things. Men knew the place was old, old as the world, and they never made peace with it.
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Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
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Will you see Pulp again? Who knows. I'm not stoking those particular rumours.
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Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.
