CJ Fly (Chaine Downer Jr.) Quotes
I used to like smoking before I recorded, but, now it's just kind of like thinking about executing it... I just want it to be the best and all that. That's what really gets me in the zone nowadays. I want to put my best foot forward and make a statement.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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Inappropriateness is funny to me. Rudeness is hilarious.
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I'm very proud to be British, and my brand is British.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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C Kalyan has been amazing and totally committed as a producer.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasizing the phrasing, using voice color more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards.
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I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.
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Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I used to like smoking before I recorded, but, now it's just kind of like thinking about executing it... I just want it to be the best and all that. That's what really gets me in the zone nowadays. I want to put my best foot forward and make a statement.
