Darren Hayes Quotes
Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a big day's waiting to happen.'
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Helping out in your kid's classroom is a great way to get involved with your child's school.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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By admitting your inadequacies, you show that you're self-aware enough to know your areas for improvement - and secure enough to be open about them.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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When you've written long enough, you see that there's a common theme in your work.
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Catchers just aren't glamorous.
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I want to stick with movies, but I also want to stick with YouTube. I'm never going to give up YouTube. I'm never going to stop making videos for the people who continue to watch them. That's my home base. That's what I love; that's what I know.
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If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.
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Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.
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Let me give you a lesson about school. All the kids who were popular end up on the dole with babies. All the nerds end up as pop stars
