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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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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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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I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
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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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His vision was to industrialize India, to urbanize India, and in the process he hoped that we would create a new society - more rational, more humane, less ridden by caste and religious sentiments. That was the grand vision that Nehru had.
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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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I love coming home to somebody, I love being in a relationship.
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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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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.
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The English have always been greedy for news of times past, with that mixture of fatalism and melancholy which is part of the national character.
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Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality.
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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.
