Rich Piana Quotes
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There's a long tradition of black folks pleading with white people. It's a tradition that emerges from political necessity, so I get it; I'm just not very interested in it.
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I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I tend to play characters that I can infuse with certain kinds of humour. Even the baddest guy can be funny in his own particular way. I want the audience to engage with the character on some deeper level so that they leave the cinema still thinking about him.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I am an Indian to the core.
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I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
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I really wanted to be a writer.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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5-Hour Energy is not an energy drink, it's a focus drink. But we can't say that. The FDA doesn't like the word 'focus.' I have no idea why.
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Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
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Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.
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I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
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The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself into the matter.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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I was not extremely patriotic about Mother Russia. I played their game, pretending. You have to deal with, you know, party people, KGB. Horrifying.
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You should build yourself according to your own body and be comfortable.
