Marcus Samuelsson Quotes
While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
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I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.
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Be present. Be meditative. Form real friendships. Stay away from business networking events or friendships where there is always an underlying business angle.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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I can't imagine how much time it took Matt Bucy to cut up 'The Wizard of Oz' and reassemble every word of dialog into alphabetical order. The resulting movie is called 'Of Oz the Wizard.'
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Michael Owen isn't the tallest of lads, but his height more than makes up for that.
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The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
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Big Tech's nonchalance about copyright violation tramples over people like my wife and me, who strive to make a living in the great tradition of the creative realm.
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While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.
