Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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Basically, I'm a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.
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Maybe I should pretend like I'm not insecure, but I really am. This movie is going to come out and... will people like it? Will they like Rey?
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I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.
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I like risky stuff.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
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My favorite TV show is probably 'Glee.' I'm a Gleek, like everyone else!
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The world wants to like America.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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Nobody has ever said to me that I was pretty, 'til I met Peter Beard.
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I was brought up Catholic, and I felt the power of art from a very young age - seeing the brutality of all those images of flayed apostles and tortured saints was a pretty strong introduction.
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Radio was always a fun, geeky thing to be a fan of - the history of radio, where it is, and where it's going - but it was really also a pretty easy job.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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I pretty much move around wherever I like.
