Obie Trice Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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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 buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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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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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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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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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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The simple act of sitting down and playing something enormously complex and spiritually uplifting on a harpsichord just bores kids to tears. There's no sizzle, there's no grab. But it's the great lesson of serious music, that it invites you to listen, rather than demands that you listen.
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Go out as far as you can go and start from there.
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No news is good news.
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Each moment calls for a different stylistic essence and a different sense of impact, and mastery of this balance is an art form - a very learnable art form.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
