Eddie Trunk Quotes
If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
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I've always wanted a Maltese-poodle, but I've always been really busy. So I said once I'm back in the city and the 'Sister Act' stuff dies down, I'm going to get a puppy.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.
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Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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Eddie Conway is central to my first memories. My parents used to take me to, when it was open, the Baltimore city penitentiary to see Eddie Conway - I was talking to my dad about this recently - from the time I might have been one or two years old. I mean, literally, my first memories are of black men in jail, specifically of Eddie Conway.
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Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
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Humor can be an incredible lacerating and effective weapon. And that is the way I use it.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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From my very first day in the Mayor's office, I have worked closely with the Council members who share our vision of a city hall that really protects taxpayers and cares... yes... about the little things that make a big difference in people's lives.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A.
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Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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Damon has emerged as a major celebrity in our city. To combine him with his Hall of Fame brother it makes for an even more special event.
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
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In most companies people make a specific contribution to the company in their function. But it is not expressed in terms of profit, only in terms of performing their function better.
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If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
