Me Quotes
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I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
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I was the shyest human ever invented, but I had a lion inside me that wouldn't shut up!
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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I just want people that like my music to like me.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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People send me fanmail in the post, and I keep every letter, and I always say I will read every single one. It might take me years and years, but I'll do it. Your audience are what makes you, so you have give as much back as you can.
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I spent two years figuring out how I could turn it into something that would satisfy me as a musician but also make some kind of cross-cultural link. I feel that I kind of at least touched on the possibilities of cross-cultural music, but it is a lifetime's work, and I don't profess to be anything other than a novice at it.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?
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I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.
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I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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My mother gave me a push. If I hadn't had her, maybe I wouldn't have had the push. If I hadn't gone to military school, maybe I wouldn't have decided to get with the program. Maybe I'd be running a bulldozer, rather than going on and doing something more.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.
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It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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I have a Facebook page for me and my friends and a Twitter page.
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I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.
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The study of law left me unsatisfied, because I did not know the aspects of life which it serves. I perceived only the intricate mental juggling with fictions that did not interest me.
