Rick Rubin Quotes
I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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I would love to have played Gollum.
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I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.
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I've always wanted to act; I just didn't know how to get into it. It kind of just happened. Dance brought me into it.
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I became what I wanted to be.
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My dad farmed, my granddad was a farmer. I wanted to be a farmer.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.
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It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
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I've played an awful lot of repressed people.
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I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
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I played more of an advisory role with Public Enemy. I really trusted them to make the music that they wanted to make, and the way The Bomb Squad worked with the... they created their whole own world of music.
