Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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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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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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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'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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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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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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In nature's economy the currency is not money, it is life.
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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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It is so gratifying for me the degree to which the Minions have been embraced. It's almost unprecedented in the CG animated world. It's amazing. That's really all a creator hopes for, that their characters grow beyond them. It's like Darth Vader and Batman. They've gotten bigger than their creators.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
