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 believe education is the great equalizer.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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I went to L.A. to become an actress, and I started from the ground up. I worked as an extra, and then I started taking this joke-writing class because it was free. I didn't want to be a comedian, but I was like, 'Free education? Yeah, I'll take a class.'
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
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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.
