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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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
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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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Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
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If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.
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I've always heard music in my head since I was a little kid, so I've always played towards that. If I felt bad, that's what I did.
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It's becoming plainer and plainer that what is going on in South America and in South-Eastern Asia is directly related to the war in Russia, for they are all parts of one single Great World War.
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Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.
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America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
