Daystar Peterson (Tory Lanez) Quotes
My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
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We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
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I'm not the kind of person who's going to look at the top of a mountain and go, 'Oh, look at that! That's lovely. That's lovely, that top of that mountain.' I'm the kind of person who's going to go, 'Oh, my God! That's so lovely! Let's go climb up it!'
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Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
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I would like to thank the 49 actors who appear on screen in 'Whiplash' for realizing Damien Chazelle's vision so beautifully.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
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Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire.
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Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
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Some people may have their doubts about me. But I feel like there's no shot too hard for me to take.
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If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.
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Well people often ask me how I felt growing up with a father who was a politician and who was often away. But when I'm asked that question I often reflect on my inability really to be able to answer it in any relative sense because I never grew up with a father doing anything else. So I just have no idea what it would be like otherwise.
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The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts.
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With Bolivia, I had hope that a discriminated African-American, with another discriminated indigenous peasant leader, I hoped that together we could work for justice and equality. Not only for just two countries, Bolivia and USA, but for equality around the world.
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I wasn't the kind of kid like Spielberg or Lucas who knew to go to film school. I didn't know at 12 what I was going to do; it took me until I was about 23. I studied journalism in college, but after school, I got a job in public television and I never worked as a journalist for one moment.
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My outlook was, 'You're not my moms; you can't tell me what to do.' I got expelled from about 20 schools.
