"In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous."

-- Archie Shepp

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“If I just take an hour yoga class, I will come out differently than I went in.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 1, 2014.
“When I won Wimbledon, I said to God: just let me win this one tournament and I won't play another match. Maybe God's telling me to go home, but I don't want to go home. We are negotiating at the moment.”
“In fiction, I have a residual guilt when I focus on story over language or mood or whatever - the more "literary" things. In screenwriting, I don't have that guilt because story is the only thing. Character, dialogue, everything else - they feed into and drive story.”
“I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.”
“Now that I'm retired, I want to say that all defensive linemen are sissies.”
“I am not proposing to replace war with peace. I propose to replace war with a smarter fight. A fight using other instruments, more intelligent instruments to convince people not to use drugs.”
“One characteristic that I have observed about the timing of all good traders is that they never try to squeeze out the last point in a stock.”

Source : Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster
“The cinema that I make is a cinema about people, emotion, humanity and passion. It's not just about what they struggle through, but what they live for. That's what I love. The music they love, the people they love, the clothing, the hair and the life that they love”

Source : Source: collider.com

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