Rickey Medlocke Quotes
Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants.
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OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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You accomplish what you want to accomplish. I just don't ever want to hurt anybody doing it.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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The best thing about golf is ultimately what it teaches you about yourself. And the worst thing is how freakin' nervous it can make you feel.
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We're becoming so much better at destigmatizing all sorts of things, including mental illness in 'Silver Linings.'
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I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.
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He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion.
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I really love hip hop. My cousin Nas came out with an album 'Life Is Good,' and I love that album, but I also love Maroon 5.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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People put me on a box, and I love when people think they know what I am capable of or not capable of. I thrive off of that.
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It's great being married to a writer. You live with someone who can read your work and help you.
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Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
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I live cinema and passionately love music, and my efforts in both these crafts are unfolding.
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Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds.
