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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The records that I grew up listening to had feel, and the drummers that inspired me - like Stewart Copeland, Neil Peart, Phil Collins and Roger Taylor - all had their own voice and individual style.
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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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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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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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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.
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I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
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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.
