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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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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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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I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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Making music is so spiritual. I'm not a spiritual person, but music is sacred to me.
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I remember going out to raise my Series A and ending up with multiple term sheets when I had gone to Silicon Valley probably four times at that point and coming back with nothing.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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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.
