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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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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We could make the most beautiful film in the world, but if it doesn't have a heart beating underneath it, then no one's going to be interested.
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Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.
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I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.
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Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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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.
