Lenny Kravitz Quotes
If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I was tested against the best.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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There have been periods of my life when I was heavier, like right after high school I definitely gained that freshman 15. It was tough to lose. Ever since then, I know that I can gain weight, so I try to be careful.
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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I'm such a perfectionist.
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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We are very serious about imposing weapons restrictions on the PFLP and other Palestinian groups operating from their camps in Lebanon.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.
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Every time I've done comedy in, like, traditional comedy clubs, there's always these comedians that do really well with audiences but that the other comedians hate because they're just, you know, doing kind of cheap stuff like dancing around or doing, like, very kind of base sex humor a lot, and stuff like that.
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We knew people in Cleveland who had been making movies for 20 years that nobody sees. Every couple of years, they make a little small movie on their own, and it goes to some minor festivals, and that's it. Four years later, they do it again. That's a fulfilling life for some filmmakers, and they're happy to work that way.
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As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done
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If you listen to a lot of old funk records, the drums are really small. But you don't perceive it like that because the groove is so heavy.
