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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Almost every comedy you see is about people making all wrong choices and making all the errors of judgement possible. Good comedy is when it works on this scale. Because it is psychologically very real.
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It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.
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When women oppose themselves to the projects and ambition of men, they excite their lively resentment; if in their youth they meddle with political intrigues, their modesty must suffer.
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I think I've also grown a little bit in that I'm not so easily dissuaded if I really believe something.
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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.
