Miles Davis Quotes
If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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When my father was arrested, we didn't know where they had him. My mother found him at the house of torture. It was called Villa Triste.
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In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I met Bill Clinton; he's a very nice guy. Yeah, Bill Clinton's cool.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling – I can so well remember it. There was always something more – behind and beyond everything – to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
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You have to go where the good writing is.
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In the fifth grade I discovered something I could do better than the other kids. One day, the teacher set up a bunch of chairs, and she had everyone run to the chairs and back while she timed us. I had the fastest time in the whole school!
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To process and close models in 50 states and 2,000-plus counties with the myriad of, just, tens of thousands of different regulations, customs, vendors - it's a monster. So the only way to do that is with technology. It really is rocket science.
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I admire people who destroy themselves.
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Even when there are adverse circumstances, I try to do my job. And I usually do.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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I hope you lay down in your sleep and you choke on every lie you told
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I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.
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I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.
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If somebody told me I only had an hour to live, I'd spend it choking a white man. I'd do it nice and slow.
