Marlon James Quotes
I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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In U.S. sports, you tend to be pretty strictly limited by the size of your team's market. When we heard that Villa was a club here that might be available, I had a strong feeling that a team in the West Midlands could be the chance to create something very special.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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Cinema sustains life. It captures death in its progress.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air.
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I always think that good writers should be growing up on the brink of death - it really lets them see mortality very clearly.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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All my Dominican friends live in an area called Los Venaga. Their houses are shacks. They'd invite us over to dinner, and we'd sit in plastic chairs on the dirt inside a house.
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A thing I do with all my characters is I break them down into one of three things: mind, heart, and groin. I figure out where they come from and what they utilize most.
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We in the West walked away from Afghanistan at the end of the Cold War and left it as a country devastated socially and armed to the teeth. If we do that again, there will be consequences.
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It is a law of nature that everybody plays a hole badly when playing through.
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Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.
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The first condition of success for the League of Nations is, therefore, a firm understanding between the British Empire and the United States of America and France and Italy that there will be no competitive building up of fleets or armies between them.
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I grew up with reggae. Reggae is like family. I know it, and there's a type of love and familiarity, but sometimes you want to hang out with other people.
