Mike Posner Quotes
When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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I've done movies I'm very proud of, but there's always a sense of: 'Come see this shiny new car!' The question I hate the most is: 'Why should people see it?'
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The late 20th century had just enough communication abilities to allow superstar-ness and communality to happen. It was a musical renaissance that rivals the visual one that happened in the 1400s.
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In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.
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The SAT allows less-privileged students access to universities that previously were the bastions of the wealthy.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Language is a personality as well. People are different when they speak different languages.
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When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.
