Eskeerdo (Alexander Izquierdo) Quotes
It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
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There is that smaller world which is the stage, and that larger stage which is the world.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
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I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
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I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to come see me in this?' And if I wouldn't want them to see it, then it's not something that I should immortalize myself on film in.
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I just want to get on and tell stories.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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I knew I was outspoken when I was a kid because, whenever my parents had company coming over, they would pay me to leave. 'Go see your grandmother. Get out of here.' That was my first paying gig.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.
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The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I need to live a long time to fulfil all the things I want to do.
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It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.
