Manika Quotes
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm a good Catholic boy.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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Everyone will be happier if fewer women are tied to abusive men, drop out of school, and live impoverished lives because of a random pregnancy.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Really, I prefer not to read my early books. Not that I don't like them, but I don't recognize myself anymore, like an old actor watching himself as a young leading man.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt.
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
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My initial attraction to 'Red Tails' was the opportunity to play a character that was not me. 'Stomp the Yard' was a great film, but I played myself there.
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I think all the great studio filmmakers are dead or no longer working. I don't put myself, my friends, and other contemporary filmmakers in their category. I just see us doing some work.
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Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
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I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael Moore brought up in 'Bowling for Columbine,' which is the idea that they're selling a narrative of fear.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
