Anderson Paak Quotes
There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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My biggest project right now is trying to be a really great mom and learning how to balance family and career. I'm just trying to spend as much time with my family as I can.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
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I think people look at dance music and see it as kind of a bad thing, and bad people hang out in nightclubs, but it never felt that way for me. Growing up in Chicago, music was the thing that saved me, that kept me on the straight and narrow.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, - a world which yields him no self-consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
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It's my luck to be at the frontier of what looks to be a resurrection of roots music on the international scene. That's really what reggae music is about: that voice against oppression and struggle.
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Freediving is by far and away the toughest sport mentally. You are underwater for up to seven minutes, and a lot of thoughts go through your brain, and you need to be completely calm and relaxed. In any other sport, you use increased adrenalin, but in freediving, you have to drop the heart rate down to 20 beats per minute.
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Too many of Disney animators, and a lot try to emulate Disney, are trying to hit what they call quality levels. They're boring mannerisms.
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Democracy is like a totalitarian.
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
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I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.
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If you real from the heart, you real from the heart. That ain't got nothing to do with no sex or gender.
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Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.
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At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.
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I always work with 18 friends.
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As the movie income comes down, it leads to a lower salary, and capital gains will keep going up.
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There's quite a few artists that didn't pop off until they were a little older - Rick James being one.
