Luther Allison Quotes
I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia, and the Caucasus? Being there was not so fun.
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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I never learned how to be adequately black. I never learned how to be black at all.
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It's such a stressful environment, I find, being an actor, being put in the chair and 'Touch this, that, and the other,' it's too much for me. I find it hard to tolerate that sort of stuff. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. You're wasting everyone's time.
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I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
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I have nothing to do with Donald Trump.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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Financial markets need to become less, not more, efficient.
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I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.
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Those who slew my father I drove into exile, punishing their deed by due process of law, and afterwards when they waged war upon the republic I twice defeated them in battle.
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Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.
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I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
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My stars and my stripes are your dream and your labors.
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Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins.
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I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.
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I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies.
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When you make the playoffs, it's like you've done your job for the team. I've got that moment in my mind all the time, and I want to be there again.
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I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
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The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.
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I didn't even know he was hitting behind me
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I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm workin' and they're not.
