Me Quotes
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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There's nothing more fun to me than new characters and a new world.
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The look of being too deliberately dressed, with everything cautiously matching, always bores me.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
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When I started training to fight, it was more out of boredom than anything. I was looking for more things to do. I started with boxing, and my coaches told me I had a lot of potential and that I should consider making it a career. I was like, 'Whatever.' I was just 15 at the time, and I never imagined something like that.
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If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.
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I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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My childhood had its challenges, like everyone's. It imbued me with certain things and took away others. It made me very determined.
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Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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Nelson Mandela was an outstanding leader and a mentor for me. I was in South Africa at the time he was released. I was in South Africa when he was inaugurated as the first president.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
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If I'm extremely bored and I don't have a book with me and I'm being an obnoxious teenager, I'll read 'BuzzFeed' on my phone. But even that just leaves me feeling icky because I think for some reason my comfort zone is to just not really be in the loop about stuff like awards shows or things like that.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
