Bun B (Bernard James Freeman) Quotes
I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by the people they tryna make it for, you know what I'm saying. It's just a matter of time before everybody gets the message that I'm tryna send out.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
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The government should move towards supporting aspirations and not entitlement. Subsidies supporting non-productive growth should be reduced.
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.
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It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'
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Financially, I've lost money and made money, but I know my way around financially.
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I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.
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Nothing in the world was more terrible than an empty bottle! Unless it was an empty glass.
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You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.
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I'm not locked into playing one guy.
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Given the knee-jerk patriotism of recent war movies, it's discouraging to see 'Windtalkers' evade pertinent facts that could have recast the doubled-edged issues of racism and loyalty and made them relevant to contemporary times.
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What would ultimately de-escalate the challenges of society would be for people to get educated, especially for more women to be educated because when more women are educated, they invest much more of their time and income in ensuring that the next generation would perform even more than they have done.
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Sometimes all a story needed was one or two people to read or listen to it to make it matter.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by the people they tryna make it for, you know what I'm saying. It's just a matter of time before everybody gets the message that I'm tryna send out.
