Nadine Gordimer Quotes
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Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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It feels a little bit odd to me that you have some guys that have never lived in the United States that play for the United States because they were able to secure a passport. To me, that just feels like they weren't able to make it for their country and earn a living, so they're coming here.
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My dad named me Dakota and my mom came up with my first name Hannah. So it's Hannah Dakota Fanning.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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To me, country songs are simple.
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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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For me a day without training is like a day without eating.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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No-Drama Obama? Yeah, that's not me.
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Honestly, it's the greatest show on television. It's live. It's topical. It makes you laugh. It's just a great vibe.
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I have, like, three suits to my name. But one thing I've learned is that when you dress up in real life, people treat you differently.
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It's really important to like what you're wearing. It's pretty clear when I don't like what I'm wearing, and it's pretty clear if you got dressed for other people. Even if you're not looking the the best you can, or maybe your outfit isn't spot on, if it looks like you got dressed and you like it, you'll probably look cool anyway.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
