"I really think that martial arts and music are very close to each other and both require a lot of focus and improvisation because you don't know where or when you're going to get kicked!"

-- Hiromi

#Art Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Focus Quotes

“I didn't think before that I'd done enough to justify publishing an autobiography but after 40 years in show business I'm now ready to tell my story.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Im a farmer. I always will be a farmer. When I die, Ill be a farmer. Its something that Ive wanted to do since I was 8 years old. I can tell you also that I see opportunity slipping away for our kids.”
“Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?”

Source : "New Moon". Book by Stephenie Meyer, September 6, 2006.
“The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community”
“I think we always think of the camera - your eye, the first reveal. You know, you have to have that impact whether you walk into a house, you walk into a restaurant, you walk into a hotel; that first powerful impact establishing shot.”
“We forget the conditions - not only in slavery - but after slavery, when there was this purposeful locking out of African Americans from economic opportunity. Or we forget today's incarceration rates, and educational and housing discrimination; all of these things. We pretend that everything that has happened happened long ago, and then we act as if we all now just treat each other equally, everything will be fine.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Time takes a cigarette, puts it in your mouth.”
“Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.”

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