Miguel (Miguel Jontel Pimentel) Quotes
It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I like to prove people wrong.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.
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As far as people whose style interests me, I'd say Grace Kelly, Gwen, Spice Girls, Victoria Beckham, and that nanny called Fran.
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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
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If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been explored in crime literature or in any general literature. It's as though Chinatown didn't exist. People write about New York without mentioning Chinatown at all.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.
Nastassja Kinski -
I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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People actually perceived me with being this cat from the Bronx because I'm one of a handful of folks that was actually acting in 'Wild Style'.
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Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.
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A lot of people didn't like John McCain.
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There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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That's what life is - you follow where your heart leads you - at least I do.
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It was important for me to remind people that there's no formula... there's no boundary to R&B music.
