Damian Marley Quotes
I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I learned that five- and-six-year-old kids have already figured out how to be intolerant.
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
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I don't have the activist temperament. I like listening to divergent points of view and hearing people out. I like getting along. I even like being liked, although activists of any stripe should get rid of that handicap at the outset.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I think anytime that somebody that works for the government lies, yes, they should be removed.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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Why are the heavens not filled with light? Why is the universe plunged into darkness?
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A lot of the time in animation is spent getting the story right - that's something you can't rush.
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We're in a time now where technology is such that we can create anything, and that's what's new about television and film these days.
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If you push hard enough you can change. You can take everything you know and round it up, turn it into something else, and keep turning things into something else.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
