MF DOOM (Daniel Dumile) Quotes
I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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One experiments and has to choose always the best results.
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
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I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
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I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
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I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.
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Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.
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I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip.
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I feel like I have this unique opportunity to represent both Korea and the U.S.
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No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
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I don't think Bollywood is only mindless cinema, but a lot of films they churn out are not films that I completely enjoy watching.
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At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform.
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At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
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I'm a normal person and I don't have superpowers! I do normal things, too.
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I really like working in television and I like exploring a character over a longer period of time, and I like the consistency of television.
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Acting is make-believe. I never believe I'm the character; I want you to believe.
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I don't want someone photographing my cellulite - I can't take it!
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I make hip-hop, but use Doom as a character to convey stories that a normal dude can't. You have writers that write about crazy characters, but that doesn't mean the writer himself is crazy.
