Tyson Gay Quotes
I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I just didn't realize how powerful 'CHiPs' was.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.
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The artist make things move, and is moved. He is policeman, motor car, everything at once. He who makes things move also creates rest. That which aesthetically is brought to rest is art.
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I thought The Big Short deserved a nomination because Adam MacKay is one of the best filmmakers. A lot of what he does deals in comedy and he co-produces with Will Farrell, people don't really give it the credit that it deserves. I think that they actually do great screenwriting and they make great films, very entertaining.
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I really like coming-of-age dramas. It's probably the most intense period in anyone's life, those years before you become an adult. Dramatically, there's so much to explore there. And it's nice to be around young talent coming through.
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I want to find that defining moment that you're satisfied and you've done what you want to do in your life.
