Maceo Parker
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MADISON PETTIS DAVID THEWLIS ANNE HATHAWAY KENDALL JENNER LYLE LOVETT In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how ba... EMILY WATSON It definitely is an ice breaker going into the awards already having one, and it was just so crazy w... MAREN MORRIS It was strange: I never had an interest in school because from an early age I knew the only thing I ... ANDY ROURKE LAURA MVULA I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do wh... AYUMI HAMASAKI DRAYMOND GREEN I think sometimes I'm more fond of doing the research for the character because you learn so muc... BAI LING J. D. SALINGER HENRY KRAVIS Since I was from the theater, that's how I learned how to go through the process of being a char... CAMPBELL SCOTT DOUGLAS COUPLAND ADRIEN BRODY JILLIAN HERVEY NATE BERKUS JAMES CORDEN I work from opposites to opposites, in a way. It's finding one thing and then doing the other fr... 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I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I d... DAVID GRANN Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said. LIKE I BRIAN HUSKEY Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change... GABRIEL IGLESIAS Honestly, I don't look at it as work because I have way too much fun on set to actually classify... BILLY UNGER Being South Asian in the U.K. is like being Latino in the U.S., I would guess. It's a bit more h... RIZ AHMED LIL REL HOWERY PAMELA ANDERSON I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why ... MADHURI DIXIT I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul ... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE PAUL WALKER I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the ... RYAN PHILLIPPE RON PERLMAN I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's w... AYUMI HAMASAKI I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking ... NANCY A. COLLINS I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easi... ROBBIE WILLIAMS RAINI RODRIGUEZ I was going to move to New York after college and had no interest in pilot season. I'd seen what... TROIAN BELLISARIO TANA FRENCH I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that... TAMARA TUNIE A. R. RAHMAN I don't think it's that I don't like Sondheim. It's that I find it really... I don&#... IMELDA STAUNTON ADAM MCKAY
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I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me goin... MACEO PARKER People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a... MACEO PARKER Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really w... MACEO PARKER I'm really at ease in being me and going all around the world playing music. But I do get a lift... MACEO PARKER I was a piano player. I love piano playing. I just love all music. MACEO PARKER You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what... MACEO PARKER There is nothing beautiful about perfection; those imperfections that you hate so much about yoursel... PARKER TREY PARKER GILBERT PARKER We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin... NATE PARKER PARKER STEVENSON In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off th... PARKER YOUNG I go to this gym in Hollywood: it's a Cross Fit gym. It's basically just a really high inten... PARKER YOUNG I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I pla... PARKER YOUNG Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables a... PARKER YOUNG I've dated girls that aren't, this is gonna sound so horrible, that aren't super smart, ... PARKER YOUNG I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philo... PARKER YOUNG I read somewhere that abs are made in the kitchen, and I'd like to agree. I like to think that I... 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ALAN PARKER GILBERT PARKER They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. CHARLIE PARKER Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't... CHARLIE PARKER Wherever she went, including here, it... DOROTHY PARKER What we do want to see is reforms that are going to have a permanent effect on the budget deficit. ED PARKER TREY PARKER When I was a kid in the mid-'60s, I was what's known as a moddie boy, a prototype skinhead. ... GRAHAM PARKER TREY PARKER This sale brings the excellent partnership that we have enjoyed with Marriott International to a clo... ALAN PARKER I hope it goes through. ALAN PARKER We're the demonstration project for the state, so everybody's looking at us. ALAN PARKER I tell my son to avoid that area, because it is extremely dangerous. ALAN PARKER People should focus their energy on developing a taste for dark chocolate, because its high cocoa co... ALAN PARKER And this film was not meant to be a political diatribe. Hopefully it's balanced, for people to make ... ALAN PARKER It's probably the hardest thing I've ever had to do, ... just being away from my kids and my family.... ALAN PARKER Thank God that he brings all the troops and my son home safely. Thank God, ALAN PARKER Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. I've never act... ALAN PARKER Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that t... ALAN PARKER DOROTHY PARKER Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of... CHARLIE PARKER DOROTHY PARKER Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here. JOHN PARKER DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER THEODORE PARKER DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER THEODORE PARKER DOROTHY PARKER DOROTHY PARKER I know Penny Toler and coach Ross have worked hard to put together a strong team this year, and I am... CANDACE PARKER I'm very stubborn. I feel like I'm going to play this season. CANDACE PARKER On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and ne... CANDACE PARKER Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids. CANDACE PARKER My dad was my first coach and drove me extremely hard from a very young age. CANDACE PARKER You want your coach's blessing. CANDACE PARKER It will be exciting to have my child share my career and to remember what I was like when I was youn... CANDACE PARKER I think it's great that young girls have the WNBA to look up to now. CANDACE PARKER What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We&... CANDACE PARKER From my first dunk at 14 years old to my second NCAA Championship at the University of Tennessee, my... CANDACE PARKER I wouldn't mind being the female MJ. I want to have major crossover appeal. CANDACE PARKER My baby is the joy in my life. CANDACE PARKER The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich... CANDACE PARKER For me, family has always come first. CANDACE PARKER I don't think I would take the game with the same mentality that I do now if I hadn't been i... CANDACE PARKER I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, ... CANDACE PARKER My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself. CANDACE PARKER You're measured by championships no matter what. CANDACE PARKER So you have to take the good with the bad. CANDACE PARKER Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams. CANDACE PARKER DOROTHY PARKER Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou... CHARLIE PARKER Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy ciga... ALISON PARKER Frankly, from a human rights perspective, that raises concerns, ALISON PARKER We're asking for a recognition that these are child offenders and they should have access to parole ... ALISON PARKER For example, Georgia rarely sentences children to life without parole, but it has youth crimes rates... ALISON PARKER This would bring us in line with the rest of the world and make the US act in accordance with human-... ALISON PARKER [Human rights advocates say that the use of juvenile life without parole, or LWOP, is by one measure... 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I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist w... 
I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing o... 
I'm depressed when I don't get to do music. Having to go back to doing something I don't... 
I wasn't trying to fit into a thing... it was not like I was like, 'Right, I'm the Han; ... 
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn&#... 
I'm happy being an actor, it's what I have always wanted to do. I'm just lucky I got to ... 
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do wh... 
I'm a very early riser, and I don't like to miss that beautiful early morning light. 
'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doi... 
If I didn't want to work for a couple of years, I wouldn't have to-it's a great feeling,... 
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age! 
I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early. 
What we do is ridiculous! I think that even when what I'm doing is serious, even when I'm no... 
When I was in my early twenties, parts would be written for women in their fifties, and I would get ... 
Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing ... 
My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of ... 
I love my complexion, but like so many of us, in the early years at primary school, I grew up thinki... 
One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the ... 
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it. 
Giving back is something that comes from the heart to me. It's not that I do it because it's... 
In a faraway land called 'pre-2000,' what Earthlings now call blogging was called 'keepi... 
It's great when people appreciate your work, but I don't know how seriously to take it. The ... 
When I was younger, I thought that straight hair was, like, the only thing. So I was trying to be li... 
I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't k... 
I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doi... 
I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn... 
I'd watch my parents work and think, 'Yeah, I'm going to do that.' It wasn't eve... 
I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,&#... 
It's like getting into film - I didn't say early on, 'I'm going to become a filmmake... 
In films, I didn't crave the type of attention I had sort of stumbled into in my music career. A... 
I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn't bother with the oth... 
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When I started comedy, I was a big Eddie Murphy fan. I thought if you did stand-up, you were suppose... 
I hate remakes of TV shows - I didn't like the new Charlie's Angels at all - and I just don&... 
I just turned 40, and it's weird to think that I've been doing this almost my whole life. I ... 
I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overvie... 
My mom means the world to me. She's always been the one to get me up early for work, help me wit... 
Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out ... 
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't ... 
I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what ... 
When I was in sixth grade there was a talent show, and I wrote my first sketch, 'The Dentist.... 
The real business of life is trying to understand each other. 
You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you&... 
I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now. 
I still think of myself really as a New Yorker. 
I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing. 
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old sch... 
They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I do... 
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of thin... 
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the... 
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be... 
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it... 
My dad was just a big Joseph Campbell nut. 
When you were a teenager in Colorado, the way to be a punk rocker was to rip on Reagan and Bush and ... 
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring. 
I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be darling at it. 
The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. 
Politics is the science of urgencies. 
Only Christ could have conceived Christ. 
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh. 