Hamid Drake Quotes
If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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The Masters is a sell-out annually, and even the scalpers mind their manners.
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People ask if success changes one overnight. I am just doing my job, and I worked way too hard to get here. I didn't get it easy.
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Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.
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I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results.
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What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.
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I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.
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Before Man goes to the stars he should learn how to live on Earth.
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It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
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I had an obsession with underarm shields - pointy ones, round ones, full ones, half ones.
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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
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After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.
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I'm a huge lover of 'Seven Samurai' and anything Kurosawa ever did. The comedic work out of Japan in terms of martial arts movies, some of them are hilarious.
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Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
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The music speaks for itself. You either like it or you don't, or you're somewhere in between. That doesn't change whether I'm in the band or not.
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There's a line in the picture where he snarls, 'Nobody tells me what to do.' That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
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If you're truly playing improvised music, I don't care who you are or where you come from, you don't know what's going to happen. I feel essentially we really don't know anything anyway, most of the times we're just guessing.
