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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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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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
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In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.
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I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?
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Peace has been as bad as war. Peace has killed as many people as war. Peace is as bad. Peace is as bad...
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It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
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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.
