Henry Saint Clair Fredericks (Taj Mahal) Quotes
I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
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I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.
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I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and on Twitter with political scoops, but YouTube is a giant social platform that has its own quirks and oddities and will require some new approaches.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.
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I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.
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Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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You can certainly make the case that we're devolving, that it may already be too late to save the rain forests, let alone the planet.
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When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become mere means to the fulfillment of our needs and desires.
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I was a tomboy who liked to play rough just like my two older brothers. That's probably why I liked the athletic part of skating - especially the jumping!
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People were excited by violence. What, after all, was the sexual act but a voluntarily endured assault, a momentary death?
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What I try to do is, I just want the fans to enjoy the game.
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I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. There are some other things to do here - movies and scores and voice-overs.
