T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) Quotes
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
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There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.
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I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
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You are just your intelligence.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff from TV Land. What you can find now on my Hulu account are Korean soap operas, 'Grey's Anatomy' and films from the Criterion collection.
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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
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It is good to have competition because that helps you survive in the long run.
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Ooh, it's too embarrassing to share my innermost romantic secrets - although I have written Danielle the odd poem. If anything they are more comedic than romantic. They used to be well-received but that was before she started studying Shakespeare at drama college. Now I feel so inept.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
