Me Quotes
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I grew up in L.A., and I don't think I've seen L.A. onscreen in a way that felt real to me. There are definitely movies, but they are few and far between.
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You know, America is - for me, it's the best country.
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Since I was drafted by the Blackhawks, the people of Chicago have really embraced me and treated me with nothing but respect.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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But there isn't any second half of myself waiting to plug in and make me whole. It's there. I'm already whole.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right.
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I'm so optimistic, I'd go after Moby Dick in a rowboat and take the tartar sauce with me.
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A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'
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I will always do R. Kelly – I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
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For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.
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If somebody had told me in the 1980s that Gerry Adams would shake hands with Ian Paisley or Peter Robinson I would have said put that man in a white suit and lock him up in a padded cell.
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New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
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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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I pretty much grew up when punk was big in the UK. The Sex Pistols were heroes for me. I used to run around like Johnny Rotten. I had a jacket like his.
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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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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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There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
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I don't vote for the guy I trust. I vote for the guy who trusts me the most.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.
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For me, every film is actually a form of documentary.
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Nudity has never been a big deal to me. I sort of grew up with a lot of it in my family.
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I do have friends in Australia who now refer to me as 'Hollywood Jack.'
