#om

The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen. ↗

— Ice T

#choose #chosen #fortunate #into #just

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop. ↗

— Ice T

#called #city #come #cop #day

You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system. ↗

— Ice T

#connected #dissing #label #out #record

You have to come in on a professional level to make it, otherwise you just can't get into rap. ↗

— Ice T

#get #into #just #level #make

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#clean #completely #doubts #given #having

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#dreams #fantasy #involves #job #literature

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#energetic #exhausting #find #life #lots

Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aggression #because #civilizations #cultures #economic

An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#aesthetic #allows #doctrine #doubt #doubts

I don't want to promote my own image either. I don't like going on television or mixing in literary circles. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#either #going #i #image #like