AraabMuzik Quotes
I don't practice. It's a gift. It's talent. Obviously, I do it all the time so it's like I'm practicing, but that's just what I do. Sometimes I'll be in the studio flipping through beats and I'll do something quick and people will be like, "What the?!" It's natural! I don't need to be nice like that, I just do it.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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I don't know what love means.
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As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.
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Ecuador has about 700 kilometers of border with Colombia, and a lot of it is impenetrable jungle.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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I'm trying to learn the lessons of the past, but not to make speeches about the past.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
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Dallas was a Black and White society at that time; it didn't have the diversity it has now.
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I think being busy is a healthy thing.
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I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised.
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In a day when, if you insulted a man it might cost you your life, you were probably more civil.
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It is time that we dispensed with the myth that the market is a force of nature that should not be meddled with. Markets are social creations that can be, and have been, modified for social purposes.
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As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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But there are things you can't consult anybody about.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I don't practice. It's a gift. It's talent. Obviously, I do it all the time so it's like I'm practicing, but that's just what I do. Sometimes I'll be in the studio flipping through beats and I'll do something quick and people will be like, "What the?!" It's natural! I don't need to be nice like that, I just do it.
