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		I was a producer and rapper before Linkin Park. Once the band took off, it was the center of my focus. A couple of years ago, I started missing doing straight-up hip hop, and that's when Fort Minor began.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mike Shinoda
			
			
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		With our producer, Greg Fidelman, it was really a joy to work with him and to try different things and experiment.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Robert Trujillo
			
			
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		I'm proud of Big K.R.I.T., I'm proud that the person that came after me shares so many similar views as mine. From him being a producer, to him being a God-fearing man - being political in a sense that he wants to see the poverty-stricken do better. He wants to be the spokesperson for them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				David Banner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jackie Chan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		God has been my number one inspiration. I also look up to Will Smith and Jamie Fox who are also personal friends of mine. They give me great career advice. I would also include Chris Stokes, as a filmmaker and music producer. I've been working with him since I was eight.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marques Houston
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I grew up during apartheid; there was never a day in South Africa that was just great. I love that I've had success as an actor and producer, but I know the thing my children will know most about is the work I've done with HIV. Success in life is all about humanity.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Charlize Theron
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		I don't know anything about this. I only know how to make tofu. I can make fried tofu, boiled tofu, stuffed tofu.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Yasujirō Ozu
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marianne Williamson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I first started out, they were like, 'Is there anybody that you like that you want to work with, and we'll see what we can do?' And I went, 'I like Malay,' who's Frank Ocean's producer, and they were like, 'Not going to happen.' It did seem so, like, high-in-the-sky sort of thing, do you know what I mean? It still does, that it happened.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Lewis Capaldi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I got the role because the producer thought I looked tired, but I looked tired because I had been jogging earlier that day.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Abe Vigoda
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bela Lugosi
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Ben Harper
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		Movement came out while we were away. The reviews were OK, and though I grew to like it more and more as the years went by, we weren’t especially happy with it at the time. When we listened to the finished product what we heard was the sound of a band whose producer had lost faith. You could hear it. The album had ended up sounding like a Joy Division album with New Order vocals.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Peter Hook
			
			
				New Order
			
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My producer, Michael Knox, he's kind of my eyes and ears on Music Row. While I'm out on the road, he's looking for songs, and then he and I will get together and go over songs.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jason Aldean
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				William Michael Griffin Jr.
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My brother's friend worked at a TV station, so we went in; the producer of a show asked if I wouldn't mind taking some photos for his wife, who was a talent agent. Next thing I know, I'm enroute to the agency.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Godfrey Gao