Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
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I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'
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I like to be supportive and a role model.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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As a boy, I had an uncle, T. G. Bond, who lived near Moreton Hampstead and who was passionately devoted to Dartmoor. He inspired me with the same love.
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I am a hard-news journalist. That is what I do.
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I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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I actually had a week where I literally wrote four songs and all of them are on my album. But sometimes you'll go a week where you'll write songs and they never see the light of day. So that process takes a long time.
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I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
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It's about finding unique, one-of-a-kind films that I would want to see myself. I think 'Party Monster' is one of those.
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Some readers will no doubt say that a devil is inside me; and though my faith is a bit like Magic FM in the Chilterns, in that the signal comes and goes, I can only hope that isn't so.
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At my shows, I've been fortunate to see every walk of life.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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When I got started, the Bulls weren't even that popular in Chicago. The Chicago Sting, the indoor soccer team, was outdrawing the Bulls. Now you can travel all over the world - Europe, Far East, Africa, wherever - and you see people with Bulls memorabilia or merchandise. It's incredible and the one thing I never could imagined accomplishing.
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I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
