Constantin Brancusi Quotes
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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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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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like, I don't remember them ever being together.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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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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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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Doors opened for me and I ran for it.
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And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind. But not for long to hold each desperate choice.
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There hasn't been any art yet. Art is just beginning.
