Kurt Sutter Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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'Drive' is a genre piece, and a lot of times we don't get really sophisticated genre films.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I grew up with all kinds of people.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.
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Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways.
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At every election, my vote goes to the candidate less likely to declare war. You're dropping hugely expensive pieces of exploding metal on a population. America deserves the president it gets, whether the country votes for them or allows their vote to be stolen, and the least we can do is to elect someone who won't do that to other people.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.
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Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart – breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.
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The only thing that I know is that if I like a particular script, I want to be as honest to my character as possible. That's the only thing I can control. I have made a lot of decisions on an impulse, and I am going to continue that.
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For me, money is about respect, and that is really important to me.
