Ariel Rechtshaid Quotes
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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The very first thing I ever did, I was doing some work for the French Cultural Center. They wanted a little recording set up. And I got wire. A wire recorder. The wire came off spools, and to cut and edit, you tied it together in little square knots. Can you imagine?
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There's a molecule inside of you that is connected to everything - every person, every energy, every thing. You look for it, and when you find it, then you allow it to magnify and grow and be the dominating chemistry inside of you.
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I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.
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Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Ten years after NAFTA, Mexico's leading export to America is still — Mexicans. America is becoming Mexamerica.
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I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
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I have it on good authority that Yankee men are so lazy they marry pregnant women.
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I love being in a relationship, but marriage isn't for me.
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You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything: You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.
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If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.
