Marlon James Quotes
Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Fitzgerald coined the phrase the 'Jazz Age,' and now we're living in the Hip-Hop Age.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I don't listen to my old stuff very often at all.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival.
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Google never knew how successful key words would be.
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My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
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I'm like Madonna: I keep reinventing myself.
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It's a very special venue and a very special occasion.
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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
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The social scene in Daytona Beach was simple. The white cats surf, and the blacks play music.
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I thought I was going to die. I was a teenager. It was the hardest thing I’d ever gone through. It’d be contradictory if I said I wasn’t pro-choice. I wasn’t ready. I didn’t have anything to offer a child.
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Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.
