A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Quotes
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I watched 'Evil Dead' when I was 12. I was going through all the horror I could grab. I remember going to the video store and asking for something 'real.' And the guy gave me the 'Evil Dead' VHS. When you're 12, you're not supposed to see that.
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Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
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Tel Aviv appeals to me.
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Me being able to beat up Austin Powers? I mean, how great can that be?
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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Nothing in my younger life could have told me I would have needed to know how to speak English.
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I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
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You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
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The wealth of information now available at the click of a finger amazes me.
