Ali-Ollie Woodson Quotes
The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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It could be interesting doing something with Kanye.
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When I was 16 or 17, I started listening to Death Cab, and I started writing my own songs. I was writing alternative rock, and I had a seven-piece band. The shift was just iterations of experimentation and finding what sounded right. When I stumbled on the sound and vibe that I currently have, it was kind of by chance.
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Everyone has the right to their lives and to look the way they want to! Tomorrow I can put on 25 kilos... it's my choice, my body!
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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Since I am first of all a character writer, that character's emotions are as vivid to me as my own. I always begin with an emotion after I have established a character in my mind. I feel what they feel. I guess that is why it comes across so strongly.
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If man was the relative of animals, then animals were the relatives of man, and in degrees bearers of that inwardness of which man, the most advanced of their kin, is conscious in himself.
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You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!
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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
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Video games make more money than albums do. Video games make money like films do. So, the smart thing for independent artists is to look at TV and film licenses.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I was a 6-foot-tall 13-year-old who couldn't play basketball. I moved around all the time as a kid, and at each new school, the coach would say, 'He's the great white hope' - but I couldn't play ball. So my thing was jokes and characters and making fun of myself and being the 6-foot-9 Jewish guy. That was my way into show business.
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I'm going to record forever.
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The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
