Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes
An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.
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I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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For about 175,000 people, Chiranjeevi Blood Bank has supplied blood for free in times of emergency. This is because of the service-oriented attitude of Mega fans.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
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My acting coach makes the impossible accessible.
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One of the reasons I didn't ever pursue a career - in the music world if you're black or mixed, you need to be able to belt a song or else you're not a singer, you know?
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I think the most important thing about coaching is that you have to have a sense of confidence about what you're doing.
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And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you’ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead.
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An important meeting point for me was realizing the similarity between a DJ set and a Grateful Dead set: I grew up listening to how the Dead would take a song and just jam on it, and then transition into another song.
