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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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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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.
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Live with the gods.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
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I thought, well of course, Kinsey absolutely adored teaching. He was a wonderful teacher. So these kids really inspired me. So that was a clue I hung onto. He loved young people, he absolutely loved them. And he loved teaching them and trying to help them.
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I cannot live with someone who can't live without me.
