CeCe McDonald Quotes
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I grew up aware of all the people I depended on and who depended on me.
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Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.
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I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.
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'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times.
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My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
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The 'Dangerous' album has producers like Tiny, who to me is very special. Also, Luny Tunes, Nesty La Mente Maestra, Nelly La Arma Secreta, Haze, and El Ingeniero. I wanted to use everyone who makes music in Puerto Rico and beyond to have variety.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.
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As for us, during twenty years' reign, we have known much bitterness.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
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Actors use who they are to be someone else, but I would hate to ever think I'm playing myself. It's imagining being someone else that is the key motivating thing for me. So when people want to know about me, it makes me a bit unnerved.
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To be frank: the translations that often sound bad in the mouths of the actors, these have often been done by linguists.
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Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger...
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.
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I've faced worse things in my life than prison
