Maria Shriver Quotes
I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.
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I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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I constantly remind people that crime isn't solved by technology; it's solved by people.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I don't feel closeted.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I'm into menswear slacks that are comfortable.
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Age is so immaterial. Isn't this all just the blink of an eyelash?
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I can't help slightly falling in love with every character I write about. And I quite like writing about people who are vilified.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.
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At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
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I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.
