Marlon James Quotes
We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
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Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
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I get a lot of people saying to me, 'Oh, you're the actor who plays the nutters,' and I'm not. I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're doing. When you play a villain, you don't play a villain: you play a human being doing what he thinks he needs to do to get what he wants.
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My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
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I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.
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I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.
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Everybody has a job to do, and you just know that every day you have to do what it takes to get there. Of course, everybody has those days where you don't feel like doing it. I'm just like anybody else in that respect. But there's a difference between not feeling like doing it and not doing it period.
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I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.
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The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.
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Politics, I now understand, is at its best when it enlightens us via an opponent's insight.
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Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.
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You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.
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Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
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We were never a frivolous band; we prided ourselves on having something to say, and I think that's what gives your songs longevity.
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A risk for a poet-novelist is imbalance: The poems can flatten into prose or lose their intensity of focus; the novels can stall amid lofty writing or literary preciousness and ignore the engine of plot and character.
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We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.
