Blackie (Michael LaCour) Quotes
Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Life is short, and we should respect every moment of it.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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If I am in London I like a quick get away to The Olde Bell in Hurley... It's nearby and no stress - great food and beautiful walks.
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I do think that the audience thinks it's funny when you break, but if you do it all the time, it loses something.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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Singing for stage, if you don't hear yourself, that's when you push, and that's when you can hurt your voice sometimes. So if I can hear myself in my ear, it really helps me to find that balance of how loud I needed to be singing.
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I am an honest, straight guy.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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How stars move tell us that most matter in the universe is dark. When we see stars in the sky, we're only seeing five or 10 percent of the matter that there is in the universe.
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Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
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Take this as a gift from a crone to a maiden, and know there is not so much difference between the two. For even a tottering granddam keeps a portion of girlish heart, and the youngest maiden a thread of old woman’s wisdom.
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Our bodies hold our minds hostage to their whims and rhythms.
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With workout classes, I always want to know that I can improve with each class I take. But I don't think I'll ever master the art of peddling quickly with little resistance, at least not without feeling like I'm going to fly off the bike.
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One of the great things I learned from how cooperative theater is, you can't be too precious about your ideas.
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Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.
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Everybody's got a puncher's chance in this game. I mean every single person on Earth. But my whole focus, my whole style, my whole dynamic is built around taking that power away from you. So where is the logic in why you're different from anybody else? There is no logic in it.
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The Pygmies rely on the forest for their very life. They know everything about finding and using plants, animal behavior, and forest survival. Working with these wonderful people has been incredibly valuable.
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I've been asked a great deal about the influence I've had with my work and it's impossible to say, you know.
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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
