Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes
He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.
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In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.
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There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks like a manly man.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
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I gradually became persuaded that the subjects, without intending to, had revealed to me a basic truth about markets that was foreign to the literature of economics.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.
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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
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When you're walking into the stadium, you just say to yourself, 'the 100m is the same anywhere, the shot put is the same weight anywhere.'
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I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.
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There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.
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All musicians need a day job in the beginning. Unless they still live with their parents, I guess. I'm just lucky that my day job is simply another form of art.
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The war on terror, if this is a war on terror, can only be won by a sincere regional and international cooperation. All have to believe they have something at stake and work together. In the absence of this it will become political and interest-oriented.
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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.
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Pitching is always a weird, difficult thing.
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There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of America. They've sent me videotapes of themselves just eating and talking about Hanson, and a loaf of bread that was really moldy by the time it got here.
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Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with 'Titanic.'
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Summertime and the livin' is easy,Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high.Oh yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma is good lookin',So hush, little baby, don' yo' cry.
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If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
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As many Giants fans know, we're one of the few teams without cheerleaders.
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He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.
