will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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My attitude to writing is like when you do wallpapering, you remember where all the little bits are that don't meet. And then your friends say: It's terrific!
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Over the years, with all the experience, I've become more mature about the subjects I pick. I have a better understanding of what works at the box office. Once the story is finalised, I surrender to the director and follow him. After that, my performances speak for themselves.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
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My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban; and then this pop hook comes out of nowhere and socks you in the face and makes you want to dance.
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
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Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
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If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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I think any song should sound good just played on a solitary instrument with the vocal. If you have those basics you have all you need. The production then just polishes that idea into the finished thing.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write – we all wrote – about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love.
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With the things that I love, I tried to put a couple seeds, a bunch of seeds in the ground and see what sprung up. Sometimes it was acting and sometimes it was music. But whatever it was I continued to plant.
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Without technique, it doesn't matter what your ideas are; you would not be able to do what you want. It's something that you always need to work on. It's also important to never forget the feeling for the music, the imagination.
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There's only one type of music and that's good music, no matter what genre it is.
