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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Texas is a pretty free state.
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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 try to do as many different roles as the system will allow me. That's the benefit of not being in a giant blockbuster where you're the lead and you get typecast in that kind of role. I am able to slip in or out of a lot of different parts.
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I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
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Plays are getting smaller and smaller, not because playwrights minds are shrinking but because of the economics.
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Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.
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I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.
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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.
