Vin Diesel Quotes
The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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I am not honest.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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I'm constantly maxing out my Gmail account, and that is hard to do.
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I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
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Fox News never calls up Bobby Seale to articulate a stance in opposition to right-wing conservatives. To me, giving the New Black Panthers a platform on Fox is a subtle tactic to scare people.
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Murder is about power and the more powerful women get the more it will change the good that they do and the bad that they do.
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My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith.
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The man who raised me is black. Culturally, he made me who I am. He was a theatre director, so he also guided me artistically.
