T.I. (Clifford Joseph Harris Jr.) Quotes
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.
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I look at myself as an audience member. I still love movies, and I still go and sit in the back of the big dark room with everybody else, and I want the same thrill.
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I have a dear friend here in Toronto, Sarah Millman, who has helped me a lot as a stylist.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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One of the first things I picked up when I was very, very young out of a record store was work from Peter Saville - the early things he used to do for Factory Records.
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There are guys out there faster than me.
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My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.
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I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.
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There is always this perception that you want to shoot for the top, but I think there's this great place to shoot for the middle and get consistent work and try different things and do the work you want to do with the kind of people you want to do it with.
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In peace time, that is to say, the size of the cake depends on the amount of work done. But in war time the size of the cake is fixed. If we work harder, we can fight better. But we must not consume more.
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That's what makes a good show. It doesn't target one group. It tells a story everyone gets.
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You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
