Up Quotes
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Just being at home, growing up naturally, and being here now with my video and my music, I think people realize that I was in the Spice Girls 8 years ago.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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I think at some point there may be artists who will get fed up, and they deliberately want to use their art as a means to rock the waves a little bit. And instead of doing the status quo, they'll deliberately go out to really make a change. I think Kendrick Lamar is an example of that.
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I'd pull my little brother on our motorcycle on an inner tube behind it. We would go fishing, we would hunt some, growing up.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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My parents grew up during the Harlem renaissance.
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When you fuse Christianity with power, it isn't long before Christians start imposing the cross on others rather than taking it up for themselves.
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Kids arent growing up with a sense of television as the aspirational place for their ideas.
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When you clean them up, when you make movies respectable, you kill them. The wellspring of their art, their greatness, is in not being respectable.
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I was determined to have a spotless house when I grew up.
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It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.
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I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going and gets the energy up. You actually get to play off of the other people that are around you.
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I went on two holidays as a child. It wasn't what people did where I grew up.
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The truth was I felt ugly growing up. I only really started feeling comfortable in myself when I was 40.
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The church is not made up of one person but a whole congregation, and they should be able to interact with art without being told what to think.
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Football is an elective. It's a game. It's make-believe. And to think that people have brain damage from some made-up game.
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I'm always struck by the kids who turn up in New York and LA, and places in between. Chicago. Wanting to do theater, wanting to do independent film. Wanting to break into television or radio.
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All writing is an antisocial act, since the writer is a man who can speak freely only when alone; to be himself he must lock himself up, to communicate he must cut himself off from all communication; and in this there is something always a little mad.
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Growing up as Chinese-American, as someone who experienced racism, questions of 'otherness' are always at the forefront of my mind.
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If there are similarities, it's simply because the same thoughts that occurred to other people also occurred to me. I'd be astonished if anyone could come up with any truly original powers that were at all interesting any more.
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I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
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I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
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When you really study espionage movies, or spy movies, the beginnings are really set up to have, like, an amazing bit of action, but at the moment you're watching it, you have no idea why or what it's about.
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I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.
