will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
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I have always been a generous and enthusiastic reader.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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I can't sing, but I'll sing over this chord progression, like, over and over, for however long it takes - sometimes it's, like, two minutes, sometimes it's 20 minutes - until I've found like a hook or something that I'm really happy with. And then, basically, it just like that's my melody, and that's where I start from.
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Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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No one person is an island.
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I will negotiate with my worst enemy.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.
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Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.
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When you find that the horse is compelled and interested in you, something in you changes. That can be healing or move you deeply.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.
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America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
