It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on. - Mike Portnoy

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings

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I think - a lot of times in hip-hop, especially - artists get kind of pigeonholed into being 'the guy,' and it's kind of limiting in a way. -MF Doom

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And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role. - Anthony Quinn

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If I hadn't left South Africa, I felt I was at risk of being pigeonholed. I looked around and saw actors who, 10 to 15 years into their careers, were still playing stereotypical Afrikaans characters, stereotyped Indian characters. That was not something that I wanted for myself.

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The idea of having different characters is really just to get the storyline across, you know? Coming from one particular character makes, to me, the story boring. I get that mainly from novels and that style of writing or movies where there's multiple characters who carry the storyline. -MF Doom

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Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. -Babe Ruth

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I accept I am going to miss playing because it's such an important part in my life. It's going to be difficult to fill that gap. Life goes on.

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I'm doing the shows. The stage is my canvas; I'll put whatever up there for the visible eye. -MF Doom

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Hip-hop is so saturated with the same old same old that people always expect the guy to actually be the guy. They want you to be real and straight from the streets and all that. -MF Doom

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