Marlon James Quotes
My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The most divisive issue facing New Yorkers in 2013 is stop and frisk, a tactic used by law enforcement to stop, question, and frisk people suspected of a crime.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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A game of soccer induces more than enjoyment, more than entertainment.
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Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or you get thin, or you get rich, because I've known lots of thin, rich, married people who are absolutely miserable.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I don't think about records.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set.
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Swimming took up so much of my faculties, and for so long, I was willing to give it everything.
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Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.
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The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
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My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.
