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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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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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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I am a huge Bollywood fan, and my favourite actor of all time is Shah Rukh Khan.
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Actors are dumb when they get insecure of their co-stars. A lot of actors do. When there is a good actor, they're like, 'Oh, he's eating up the part.' That's stupid.
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I think that every song has to be like it could be the biggest hit of my album.
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If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
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While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.
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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.
