Madi Diaz Quotes
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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I feel like I'm a natural-born playwright, but the prose thing has always mystified me. How to keep it going? How do people do it, for years and years?
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Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
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My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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One cool thing is because Mom and Dad aren't into the Hollywood scene, they don't read 'US Weekly' or anything like that. They give me space. They don't care. They just want all of their children to be doing something that they love to do and be able to pay their insurance.
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times – but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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Art to me is not precious enough that I feel territorial about what the word gets applied to. Conversations about what counts as art and what doesn't doesn't captivate my attention very much.
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Only votes talk, everything else walks.
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My book is not a book of dirty stories. There are no shocking revelations. I wasn't looking for any and I didn't find any.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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My dad was a musician who went to Berklee, and he made me learn piano when I was five.
