Liya Kebede Quotes
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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My hunger is always there.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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I love puppies, and I love animals in general. Besides that, I do martial arts: extreme martial arts. I also play real guitar and drums, and sing. And I'm taking some college classes, hoping to major in English and creative writing.
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Heartless zealotry, whether from the religious right or from the teachers' union on the left, is always troubling.
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Set a clear, easy-to-understand vision for your company, and make it be a mission people believe in.
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I know some people say I can be funny. But there is always a deeper meaning to what I say. I am a socialist at heart and have the interests of the poor in mind. When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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I love working and I feel satisfied when I know I have literally given all the energy that I have. That being said, work is not my No. 1 priority. I don't think it can come at the expense of your family, your friends and your 'significant other' if you have one.
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I live with four of my best friends - with my brother and three of my best friends - and we have a lot of fun; there's a really tight bunch of us in London.
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You know, my brother won't walk out of a restaurant with me anymore because he doesn't want to be linked to me as my new 'mystery man.' Same with my close guy friends.
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We will go on tour, that will be a boost for me. After that I can focus on LaToya. If I didn't have them, so many people would be coming at me right now and I wouldn't know what to do.
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I am always touched when friends make contributions to my foundation on my behalf.
