Big Boi Quotes
My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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A novel is not a rant.
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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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An effective human being is a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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With 'True Detective,' you have a lot of time. How I like to describe it... it's like you're filming a theater piece.
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The whole industry is changing because so many people watch things on DVR, and they watch things on other platforms, and I think everybody is kind of scratching their heads about how this is going to play out.
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For 'Barnyard,' I did the voice of a 'chick,' which was really a blast because I had to manipulate my voice to another pitch.
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Kids are our future.
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My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.
