Kevin Chapman Quotes
I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
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I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
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I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
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I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I have to trust what I do and then do it.
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There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
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Unscrupulous writers often count on the fact that most people don't bother reading footnotes or tracking down citations.
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We've had enough of the generals and movie stars. We want to hear about the ordinary people.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Busy yourselves with this, you damned walruses, while the rest of use proceed with the libretto.
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If everything in chemistry is explained in a satisfactory manner without the help of phlogiston, it is by that reason alone infinitely probable that the principle does not exist; that it is a hypothetical body, a gratuitous supposition; indeed, it is in the principles of good logic, not to multiply bodies without necessity.
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I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.
