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 want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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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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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.
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My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
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I never get my hair done. I just do it myself.
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Because most startups are lean and scrappy organizations consisting of a limited number of people and supported by an even smaller number of resources, startups cannot afford to have any slackers on board. When you fail, you cause an 'epic failure,' and when you win, everyone in the company knows about it.
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He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.
