Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes

He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.

Demetrius Shipp, Jr.

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• In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Movie
  • Painting
  • Color

• 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.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Women
  • Man
  • Hero

• I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Find

• 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.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Better
  • Actors
  • Ballplayers

• 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.'

  

  Gaston Lachaise
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Vision

• Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Kids
  • Future
  • Coffee

• 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.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Work
  • Heart
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Truth
  • Literature
  • Economics

• If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Democracy

• Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • People
  • Together
  • Capitalism

• 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.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Father

• Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

  

  Hannah More
  • Poverty
  • Youth
  • Luxury

• 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.'

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Walking
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • School
  • Feeling

• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
  • Camera

• There are a lot of actors - I'm probably one - who are most at home when they're on stage.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Most

• 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.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Live
  • Art
  • Job

• My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Experience
  • War

• We arrive at a portrayal of other things, such as the laws governing matter. These are the great generalities – Which do not change.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Great

• Some people make that decision at 15 and some people make it at 50, and most people never make it all.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Decision
  • Unequivocal

• Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Value
  • Successful

• Older, younger, anyone can help. We've learned that our legislators listen, and people with passionate and thoughtful concerns make a difference every day. We've had constituents initiate legislation, lobby for it, organize meetings and events, and, of course, call, mail, e-mail and visit legislators to express their views. It's really great to see how much difference that individuals can make.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Great
  • Help

• He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.

  

  Demetrius Shipp, Jr.