Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
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Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.
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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
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It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.
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The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
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I'm used to packing up and leaving, to condensing myself into a digestible version because people don't have much time to get to know me.
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Marketing is more important than it has ever been. But I'm trying to tear the layers back and make it not so contrived. I think people just want entertainment.
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I believed that old people never laughed. I thought they sighed a lot and groaned. They walked with sticks, and they didn't like children on bicycles or roller skates... or with big dogs.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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Some people think the world will end in 2012. I think we've got until 2014. I'm an optimist.
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Individual warrants every day are used to arrest dangerous people.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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Star Trek wouldn't die. There were a whole lot of young people who were touched by the thought process of science fiction. If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that was going to stimulate your mind.
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It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.
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All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
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When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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If a woman tells you she's twenty and looks sixteen, she's twelve. If she tells you she's twenty-six and looks twenty-six, she's damn near fourty.
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I thought there were too many songs about people's personal lives.
