Antoine Fuqua Quotes
I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.
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There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
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Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time.
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I'm a stand-up comic. I'm always doing dates; it's just that, if I'm working on a project or I'm busy, I can't get out on the road or book any shows. Since the beginning of my career, I'm usually out for at least 10-15 dates throughout the year. If I have time, then I try to get at least 30-40 dates.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
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I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.
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When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.
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You never know how much time you got.
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A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
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I think it's difficult to be No. 1. 'There's too much attention, too much expectation from other people.
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It's not possible for two countries to be the leading dominant political power at the same time.
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I like being the center of attention. I want to be in the limelight, basically.
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We have reached a new milestone as a human family. With seven billion of us now inhabiting our planet, it is time to ask some fundamental questions. How can we provide a dignified life for ourselves and future generations while preserving and protecting the global commons - the atmosphere, the oceans and the ecosystems that support us?
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Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
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I feel like an email cross-dresser - I use a Microsoft product on my Apple product to access my Google product.
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As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first greatest lesson that should be taught them is to admire frugality. It is by the exercise of this virtue alone they can ever expect to be useful members of society.
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When I was in art school, I worried that being a painter seemed like it could be an elusive dream, and fashion seemed so much more secure.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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My dream role? I think to play Sammy Davis Jr. and his life story.
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I don't know if Prince even really paid attention to time. The moment of creativity is the moment, and you go at that moment.
