Takeshi Kitano Quotes
For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
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This bikini made me a success.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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Will Smith said if I ever need some help, he was there for me.
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Well if somebody's giving me a script, I'll consider it. But it's not something I'm chasing.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I much prefer doing comedy. I get a little paranoid when the audience is not laughing.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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I am trying to do comedy on every single medium. I consider myself a public servant.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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How can we later criticise other countries outside the European Union for adopting such measures to repress opponents when we are tolerating this inside the European Union with European citizens? Like me - I'm a European citizen.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.
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When somebody asks what I do, I guess I say 'writer' first.
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I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.
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Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.
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We need to in this country begin again to raise civil discourse to another level. I mean, we shout and scream and yell and get very little accomplished, but you can disagree very much with the next guy and still be friends and acquaintances.
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For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.
