Little Louie Vega Quotes
'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.
Quotes to Explore
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.
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It was a labor of love and they did really well.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.
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I think it's important to have flexibility to work wherever is best for you. I actually encourage people to work at the cafe - or from home or wherever works best for them.
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Being vital means knowing the rules and being brave enough to break them.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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'Nuyorican Soul' has a lot to do with our lives, growing up in New York, listening to all different styles of music, hanging out with all different kinds of people.
