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"1056 Career Quotes

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I'm in.

About Because Could Disrespect
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I was doing sold-out shows before I got radio play.

Before Doing Got Play
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

Future Immediate Only Past
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I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

Been Accustomed Being Famous
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Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

Shortens Journey Misfortunes Hearer
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You cannot be from Atlanta and not know who Gucci Mane is, period.

Atlanta Cannot Gucci Know
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Where I am from, people are into designer brands, but not, like, the cool ones, just like any designer brand, and I wasn't that type.

Am Any Brand Brands
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I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.
Hotel Imagine More Paid
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For me, hipsterism is for one to appropriate the codes of a social class or another milieu that wasn't theirs originally, in order to define their personality through something different and unique. Which is why a lot of hipsters live downtown, and they're dressed as farmers. Then you have the Oscar Wilde hipster: the dandy.

Hipsterism Codes Social Originality
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
Violent Writing Art
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I've been recording forever. I'm a watcher. I'm a stalker. I love everything about people. It's always been a passion for me to observe.

Recording Watcher Passion People
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No one knows me in the States because the movies have been released in such an awkward, irregular fashion, all by different distributors. There is no continuity.

Movies Awkward Irregular Fashion
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Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

Liberating Fulfilling Dream
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Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

Cinema Thankless Industry Appear
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.

Personally Faction Movie Ciniphiles
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.

Nature DNA IMAX Redefined
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I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.
Design Costumes Movies
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
Film Money Plough Invisible
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

Habit Films Father Absent
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The problems I have with a flawed script are always revealed in the editing room.
Flawed Script Revealed Editing
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Everything I've done in my career has started in and around Detroit, you know, the metro area and Michigan.

Area Around Career Detroit
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As an entrepreneur, as an investor, I'm trying to be as educated as I can to where the progression of technological capability is going and what it does to these different categories that, me as an artist and an influencer, I can get involved and bring value.

Entrepreneur Investor Artist Influencer
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I was never ignorant, as far as being experienced in classrooms and learning about different subjects and actually soaking it up, so I checked into college for a little bit. I took classes at a community college in West L.A. I took psychology, English, and philosophy.

Ignorant Learning Subject Psychology
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We don't want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.
Wait Hire Check Create
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I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that's it, and somebody else come in.

Seen Artists Minute Somebody
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Any time a country transitioned to a fiat currency, they collapsed. That's just world history; you don't have to know about cryptocurrency to know that.

Currency Collapsed History Cryptocurrency
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I feel like that's what's going to be most respected at the end of the day, that I'm able to do so many different things and become less of a rapper and just more as a musician.

Able Become Day Different
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I started recording in my sophomore year in high school. I recorded things on my cell phone in my basement.

Basement Cell Cell Phone High
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Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

Music Bills Uncomfortable Situation
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My musical career was an accident.

Accident An Career Musical
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From the beginning of my rap career, since I was seen and heard, I always had a store.

Rap Career Store
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'Victory Lap,' even the title. It's the accumulation of trial and error; that's what I represent; trial and error.

Victory Lap Accumulation Trial
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.

After Anymore Asia Boom
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In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me 'Jackie Who?'.

Ask Dog English Even
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.

Action All My Life Always Fighting
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Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

After Brighten Course Depend
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When I was five I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress.
Actress Five IThink Started
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It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Shame Work Eight hours Eat
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A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once

Mule Labor Patiently Privilege
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.

Hollywood Place Stabbed Climbing
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I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Day English Every Every Day
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'

Audience Direct Film Hear
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When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

About Actor Become Comedian
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.

Bowl Goldfish Like Living
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The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

AsFarAs Comedy Dad Ever
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When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Am Anything Could Day
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I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.
All My Life Almost Almost All Am
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Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh
Friends Just Laugh Make
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Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.
You Like Believe
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The guy who could be me, but he knows when to draw the line, is John Cena. John Cena can rock 'n' roll, let me tell you.

Could Draw Guy He
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