Ed Weeks Quotes
I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.
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I feel like I grew up in the circus. I know planes, trains and automobiles. And really talented, weird people.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.
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I carry my own film guys with me now. People think that's a huge expense, but with technology like it is these days, it's not. You can film videos and everything with a Canon Mark II, and shoot a movie. They're doing it for next to nothing, by comparison. I can do ten videos for a project for the price of one mainstream video in the past.
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Hollywood likes to put out their own message out a lot of times, and that message isn't the best one for everyone.
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I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
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I did a movie where my character was obsessed with Bruce Lee, so I learned everything about Bruce Lee, read everything, watched his movies.
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I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.
