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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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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So do fundamentalists believe in majority rights or minority rights? The answer is, apparently, neither. They'll pull whichever argument suits them out of its file when necessary, but basically they are unprincipled on the issue of school prayer. They have a big double standard that basically says, "Whatever I want is right.
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The typical output deal from a studio is 10 to 14 movies a year.
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They asked me how much money I had, and I told them I had saved my every dime from working in the mills, which was about $300. Well, they told me the school tuition for a year was $900. But the man in charge of the school made me an offer I'll never forget it. He asked me if I was a gambler. He said if I paid the $300, he would take me on and if I worked hard and proved I had talent, somehow he'd find the rest of the tuition money for me.
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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.
