Zoe Kravitz Quotes
I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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Well who's black and what is a black person?
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm not graceful.
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When liberty returns, I will return.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.
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We are drowning in a sea of Myspace, blather, and too much information. Music is everywhere and nowhere. The independent record store is the solution, a place staffed by friendly (or not) people who are actually paid to weed through this crap and help you find the good stuff.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
