Daveed Diggs Quotes

Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass.

Daveed Diggs

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 24, 1982

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I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

John Lone

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I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

Robert Sheckley

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Composing music is hard work.

John Williams

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It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

Rupert Friend

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There are moments in South America, in Brazil, where you look out, and there are literally thirty, forty thousand people jumping up and down at the same time.

Mike McCready

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I definitely try to be myself and not try to imitate other performers. That's why I got my music degree. I wanted to be prepared and not be a 'product.' I want people to know that I'm not only a singer but a musician as well. I studied guitar, piano, and composition. I believe that it's just about being myself on and off stage.

Luis Fonsi

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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?

Lord Byron

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America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Joseph Nye

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I experienced no conflict between my mother and father, which was entirely due to my mother's compassion, intelligence, and maturity.

Christie Hefner

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I was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederacy.

Corey Reynolds

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Surveys have shown going back as far as you and I can remember that people have perceived a leftward tilt in the basic coverage that they get on TV news.

Brit Hume

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People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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