Tariq Trotter (Black Thought) Quotes
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Consumerism is so weird. It's a sort of conspiracy we collude in. You'd think shoppers spending their hard-earned cash would be highly critical. You know that the manufacturers are trying to have you on.
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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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I think any actor hopes to have variety and range in what they do. Everybody has a certain range, so you take on roles to expand that the best you can... See things a little differently and whatnot.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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I've always loved science fiction. I think the smartest writers are science fiction writers dealing with major things.
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature.
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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.
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Oh, you know, I think it was definitely a little pressure, to remake something like 'Fame'.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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I’m tired, can’t think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
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At school, I'd refuse to take part in biology lessons when animals were being dissected. One time, the teacher announced that we would be gassing worms. So I ran around the room, gathered up all the worms and set them free in the fields. I just loved animals and couldn't bear the thought of them suffering.
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I think at Le Cirque I learned how to make real food, which is what people crave, not just gimmicky things on a plate.
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Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.
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I do Pilates. And that's best for me... because I can't really do any other sports any more because of my muscles.
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Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?
