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"1056 Career Quotes

My best and worst 'Idol' moments? I don't have a worst 'Idol' moment... I've been spectacular. Yes, I am going to toot my own horn. And then my best moment is every single moment. I'll toot it again!

Again Am Been Best
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I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that.

About American AmericanIdol Expect
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I've gotten tons of awards and I believe when it's my time to get a Grammy, I'll get a Grammy.

Awards Believe Get Gotten
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I know right now she has no idea who I am, but I'd like to collaborate with Enya one day. Of course I'd love to work with Jay-Z, maybe even Phil Collins. I love his voice.

Am Collaborate Collins Course
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One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

Always Convinced Deals First
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I was brought up in an era when thrift was still considered a virtue.

Brought Considered Era Still
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The one mentality I've always tried to have is that no matter what stage in your career that you are in as a musician or a performer or a songwriter or whatever, there's always more to learn.

Always Career Learn Matter
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Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
Flying Joy Like Pilots
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I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

Am Engineer Ever IAm
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I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.

Art Career Entertainer Great
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I go in and sing the song and arrange it and mix it and that's it. It's no different than playing in clubs.

Arrange Clubs Different Go
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I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.

After Exception Gold Landing
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Please Nigerian youths… Slaying on the gram is not a career, and it’s doesn’t mean the individual is booked and busy… Biko everybody wears clothes… Quit mediocrity.

Please Staying Gram Career
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I think I'm going to be making country records for as long as I can see into the future. It's much more down-home and real.

Country Future Going ICan
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I totally have no other talent and I would be totally out of work if I did anything else.
Anything AnythingElse Did Else
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I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

Arrow Broken Just Old
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Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.

Country Course Doing Expected
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Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.

Basement Club Garage Hall
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The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Bind First Generation Music
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I'll never be Bob Dylan. He's the master.

Bob BobDylan Dylan He
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I fought my grandfather like you wouldn't believe. I went my own way and decided to become a racing driver. I don't think I would ever have fought as hard as I did if my grandfather had been a reasonable person.

Become Been Believe Decided
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Pressure is always on if you don't perform. There is no question.

Always NoQuestion Perform Pressure
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People say that F1 is blessed with the 'best drivers in the world,' but I want to witness the 'total best drivers in the world,' and this means taking away the elements that make their job easier.

Away Best Blessed Drivers
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There is no friendship out there. When you race, you have to fight. That's it.
Fight Friendship Out Race
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Having your work be the basis of fame, that's a far more stable feeling.

Basis Fame Far Feeling
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A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself.

Atom Itself Just Looking
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I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

Amazing Any Back Been
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Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Compare Done Experience First
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.

Been Career Characters Childhood
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Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.
Always Contemporary Obviously Piece
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When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

Another Believe First Great
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Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies.

Am Cast Character Directors
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You don't improvise with a Cameron Crowe script.
Cameron Improvise Script You
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.

Beginning Career Go Learning
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I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already.
Am Boxer Cowboy Done
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Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

Although Audience Buy Cinema
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I remember one time that I was filming a scene in whych my character rides through Troy on a chariot. I just looked around at this incredible set thinking 'This is the life'.

Around Character Filming I Remember
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I feel really privileged to be an actor, to be paid to do something I love.

Actor Feel IFeel ILove
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.

Been Before Done Film
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The role of an actor is to make every character believable.
Actor Believable Character Every
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Until this movie I have played a boxer, a cowboy, a knight, a prince, an elf and a pirate. I am so glad to have done all of that already, and am ready for this phase of my career.

Am Boxer Career Cowboy
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If I wanted to make spy movies for the rest of my life, that would be one thing, but I don't want to just make spy movies.

Life Make Movies Rest
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Again All-Time Answer Ask
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

About Best Day End
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Also Defeat Enemy Enough
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Everything First Ground Ideas
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

Endless Fix Go Just
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

About Beauty Did Famous
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