Big L (Lamont Coleman) Quotes
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer.
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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I love oral hygiene.
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...the world is possibility if only you'll discover it.
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The truth is, as most of us know, that global warming is real and humans are major contributors, mainly because we wastefully burn fossil fuels.
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It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at the mall and I was pumped up and I thought technically I was on and I figured where else to open up my outdoor season than here.
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The trouble with that movie is that you had to see Chinatown the day before you saw The Two Jakes.
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I don't think I could write a straight drama.
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What is needed is an all-out science project to get vehicles off of gasoline, rather than off of the earth.
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If your child really loves art, get them some good brushes. Get good material and make them feel that what they do is important.
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The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
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My parents would never throw the kids in first class for the flights; they'd be up front, and we'd be economy - we knew we were lucky just to be travelling.
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I'd just got back from filming my role as Flo in 'Kidnap & Ransom' when I got the news that Channel 4 had re-commissioned 'Fresh Meat,' so I think it was the first Christmas I could actually relax knowing that I had three months' work sorted. As an actor, that's always a good feeling.
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The purpose of art is to collide the intellectual and visceral together at the highest speed possible.
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I've never been a believer in the word-count thing. I write slowly and tinker with the words and the word order, and I throw a lot of stuff out.
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We're getting hurt, but I'm a long-term investor.
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My views have changed as much as the world, and more precisely, the world of art. You have to remember that all my criticisms of the institution were done directly from the world I was in and my analysis of it. Many things that I said about the omnipotence of the museums, for example, are today almost obsolete. In fact, the museum and the institution drastically lost their power by the pure fact that they disseminated by thousands around the world.
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I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.
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We always see that the gaps in qualifying are surprisingly close but then in the race suddenly it is like a second or something.
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Breakin' in cribs with a crowbar I wasn't poor, I was po', I couldn't afford the 'o-r'
