Me Quotes
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When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me.
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My dad didn't want me to play guitar. He played piano, so I chose that. And I ended up loving it.
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If T-Bone Walker had been a woman, I would have asked him to marry me. I'd never heard anything like that before: single-string blues played on an electric guitar.
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The call that always seemed the toughest to me was the slide and tag play at second. You can see it coming, but you don't know which way the runner is going to slide, where the throw is going to be, and how the fielder is going to take the throw.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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My parents have basically just taught me the rules of the stage and everything since I was eight.
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You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
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All you need to do to be my friend is like me.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.
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I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.
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The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
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I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks.
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We have more and more one-newspaper towns, and that troubles me.
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Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included.
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
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'The Fifth Gospel' is set entirely inside the Vatican and told from the perspective of a Catholic priest. I'm not Catholic myself, yet authenticity and factual accuracy are very important to me, so the novel required an enormous amount of research.
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Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.
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I wasn't like those girls who give birth and are back on the runway. It took me probably six months to gain 45 pounds and I would say it took me double that time to lose it.
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While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.
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I've been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.
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To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
