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'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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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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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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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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No man may make another free.
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As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.
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Frank Zappa was one of the gods of the Czech underground, I thought of him as a friend. Whenever I feel like escaping from the world of the Presidency, I think of him.
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I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.
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I think you really have to remember what you loved about making music in the first place. Ultimately, people can be like, 'We've seen this dude in many movies,' but if they hear a song and they're feeling it, they can look past all the personal things and not hold it against you that you're also an actor.
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One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
