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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

Ceremonies Control Crowd Master
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

About Beat Better Could
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

Different Different Ways Emcee Good
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Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Acting Creativity Music Same
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I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

Buried Connected Hip Hop I Think
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Bit Feminism I Think Little
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

Again Come Film Good
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I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

Because Call Circus Go
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

About Across America Behind
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Apology Body Care Characters
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

Aggressive Better Better Life I Think
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Argument Big Character Director
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Actor Been Better Bigger
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
Countries Knows No-One Some
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

About American Bad Bad Guys
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Mine Networking Personalities Some
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Great Things Men Mountain
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I have no name: I am but two days old. What shall I call thee? I happy am, Joy is my name. Sweet joy befall thee!
Name Joy Days Old
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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

Sun Moon Doubt Immediately
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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

Sinister Person Enemy Start
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time
Eternity Love Production Time
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Brings Closer Every Home
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The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

Bunch Club Determines Dime
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Ask Back Except Get
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Always Baseball Best Game
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Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

Awake Gee Hard Keep
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I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Did Dirt Hit Mean
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Baseball Cemetery Either
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Bed Dollars Drinking Earlier
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Ages America Bat BeHappy
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Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Bad Ballplayer Bit Even
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Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

Games Home HomeRuns Runs
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Let me show you how it's done... Loser!

Done How Loser Me
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I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
Bases Had Hit Home
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Women have a predestination to suffering.
Predestination Suffering Women
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When a film company is in the red they come to me. Always it is the same.

Always Come Company Film
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Actor Any Continental Could
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

Man Sees Formed Powers
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The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Foot Persists.folly Wise
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The stage is near and dear to me.

Dear Me Near Stage
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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
Hours Measured Clock Wisdom
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The true method of knowledge is experiment.
True Method Knowledge Experiment
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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Fool Sees Tree Wise
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He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
Face Light Star
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The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

Actual Attributes Demand Dracula
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Books Good Heavy Discipline
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The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.

Actor Class Community Former
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

Education System Training School
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Come and go a Swedish mile in my moccasins before you criticize who I am.

Before Mile Criticize Come
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The loss on the swings is won back on the merry-go-round.

Won Swing Back Loss
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