Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.
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Livelihoods and whole communities throughout the Murray-Darling Basin have been imperilled by the workings of drought, fire, flood, acid mud and human action over many decades. In the rescues and the cleanups and the long hauls, I see the same attitude over and again. People just rally and get on with it.
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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Acting is a very big part of what human beings do. A dog is always a dog, but we're always changing.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I loved Interpol when they came out, but I never wanted to be in Interpol.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
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I grew up in Chicago, IL. I've got three siblings.
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The reason why I love to win is because I don't have to go through that feeling of losing. It's those times where I lose that feeling that will stick with me.
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I was on the improv team in high school, and after I graduated, I joined an improv company that had been established 10 years prior to me getting there. They did longform improv, and I fell in love with it. It's acting, character creation, collaborative, artistic expression and comedy - and it's scary. It was a big rush.
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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It's unbelievable. But I've never been to a pro football game. I've never been to a pro hockey game, either. I guess I'm not much of a sports fan.
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Men in the mass never brook the destructive discussion of their fundamental beliefs, and that impatience is naturally most evident in those societies in which men in the mass are most influential. Democracy and free speech are not facets of one gem; democracy and free speech are eternal enemies.
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Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
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I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.
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I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I also love the extravagance of John Galliano for a big occasion. But I'm very bad with following trends.
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When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.
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In the early '60s, it was still a fairly subversive thing, though, to say that you should take a painting, cut it, set it on fire, step on it, hammer nails into it.
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I picked up the Joss Stone album, Josh Groban, and the new Norah Jones. I love, love, love Norah.
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I feel, as an artist, I should be able to express who I am and the things I come from, and the places I want to also be.
