Common (Lonnie Corant Jaman Shuka Rashid Lynn) Quotes
Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
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My personal opinion is that I'm in the media too much. I'm not a politician, I'm a businessman. I would like to be without any extra visibility.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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I have a temper, but I wouldn't call me abusive.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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I always say, dare to struggle, dare to grin.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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I've been very lucky.
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Science today is a highly collaborative exercise, and to convert it into a contest, as the Nobel does, is a bad way to look at science.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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I don't separate things out between what's personal and what's my work. My passion is personal.
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I think that the stuff I write for pop music is terribly, terribly cheesy.
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My first husband dragged me out of London and made me live in the suburbs in Surrey - not where you want to be when you're 23.
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We are aggressively trying to get the word out to parents about how they can tap into this resource.
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I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.
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Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.
