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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Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.
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When I was teenager, Britney Spears was it - that was the pop world that was happening, and I knew I wasn't in it.
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I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.
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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.
