Jacob Artist Quotes
I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
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I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.
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I've been through plenty in my life where I've really had to focus on the day ahead... because, as I know, the future is, you know, whatever the future is... Once you've stared mortality that hard in the face, you really seize the day.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.
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I've been blessed with a wonderful husband, two caring daughters and sons-in-law, and four really special grandchildren. They have each enhanced my life.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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I feel like my kind of music is a big pot of different spices. It's a soup with all kinds of ingredients in it.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
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The other deals with my life and my livelihood and my family and all that I stand for.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
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I believe a person's style is an expression of who you are - way more than dancing.
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Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.
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If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear.
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I grew up dancing my whole life, and I always kind of perceived that's what I would do professionally. But when I caught the acting bug, I knew I needed to go with no turning back.
