Raphael Saadiq Quotes
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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Well, the post office is probably not the place you want to go if you want to be infused with patriotism and a renewed sense of vigor.
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Travelling expands the mind rarely.
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I'm trying to do big things. It doesn't matter whether it's on the field or off the field.
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You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.
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You can't go up to girls and start talking about minor 7ths and expect to pull. It's not going to work.
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I'm less interested in the inside of whatever it is I own than on the outside of what it sits on.
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'The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears' is very much about America - it just happens to have African and Ethiopian characters, and in fact, it happens to have more characters who are not Ethiopian than who are.
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I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.
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I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!
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One of the great joys of being able to write something you can make, if you get certain actors you want and love, you're kind of buying yourself a front row seat to watch them work.
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I took piano lessons as a kid, and my daughter's played piano since before she started kindergarten, so classical piano is something I really love.
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I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.
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That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!
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I'm starting to think about things that I want to do, things that are fun. One of them is driving a car like a Porsche. I've driven a lot of cars - sedans, trucks and big family vehicles all year long. But there's nothing like a four-wheel-drive Porsche.
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The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.
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If somebody had told me when I was in graduate school, 'Brian, in 35 years you'll get a chance to fly the first commercial spacecraft with no computers,' I'd have said, 'I don't think so. People are not going to be that stupid.'
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Obamacare is going to destroy our economy and destroy our freedom.
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I had some great times doing competitions, but I have always been more into making movies because making movies is more about art and expressing yourself in a creative way.
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Kids should feel afraid of 'Doctor Who.' All the adults I've talked to remember fondly being afraid when they were kids. That's part of the reason they remember it and love it. And if you're afraid in a controlled way, you sort of appreciate fear in some respect.
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Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.
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I've always loved people that's been around for a long time, like old shoes.
