Big Smo Quotes
I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
Quotes to Explore
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Nothing improves your confidence and brings a team together more than winning a cup.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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One of the biggest turnoffs is being presented with an idea that's already, to a degree, complete. That's not an adventure, and it's not a learning experience. It's more of a chore. Then you become a technician with taste, as opposed to an explorer and an author.
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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
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Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.
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I'd like to see someone try to make Cush Jumbo up. It's my real name.
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I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.
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I'm a product of my surroundings. I grew up on Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Jerry Reed, and also Run-D.M.C., the Beastie Boys, the Fat Boys, and Biz Markie.
