Nicholas Payton Quotes
Silence is what makes music sexy. I just move blocks of silence around. The notes are an afterthought.
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Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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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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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Most police officers are good cops and good people.
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Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.
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An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
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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 think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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The United States Senate wasn't designed to be a majority-rule institution. It was designed to include and accommodate the rights of the minority in small states as well as large states.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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But you know, it's not easy when your husband runs for president. I mean, it's not easy for me. I'm sure it's not easy for her. There's a lot of scrutiny on families that isn't always wanted.
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I hope that the movie industry will learn from the experiences of the music industry and will be much more constructive in their approach to P2P.
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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Americans are already paying the price for record heat waves, dirty air, and an unstable climate. We need to fight these threats with every weapon we have, and the electricity industry has to do its fair share.
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Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.
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I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
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I feel like the guilds are, just to be frank, people I pay money to.
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Massachusetts has prohibited most financial advisers from using titles like 'certified senior adviser,' and some of the largest insurers, including MetLife and Genworth Financial, have similar rules.
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The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.
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I eat a lot of chicken with salad or salmon with salad.
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Silence is what makes music sexy. I just move blocks of silence around. The notes are an afterthought.
