Lauryn Hill Quotes
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
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A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like three guns and holsters from 'Serenity'.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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Imagination creates some big monsters.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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It's important for people to understand where things come or what they represent.
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You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.
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My grandma passed in '78, and that's the year I started recording. It's also the year that my dad retired from his career. So it's funny how torches get passed on, and you feel a responsibility to be connected to the music that they did and try to carry it on in your own way.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers.
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I have always been interested in the idea of self-reinvention.
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I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.
