Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) Quotes
I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
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Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I still have a young attitude.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I don't particularly get nervous about anything.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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The theatre only knows what it's doing next week, not like the opera, where they say: What are we going to do in five years' time? A completely different attitude.
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The image of myself that I give on social media isn't actually who I am; it's not 100 percent me, obviously.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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I want to keep making records as long as I can, but I don't know how long you can be taken seriously in rap.
