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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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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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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If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.
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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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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.
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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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A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent to anyone, especially a man, because the minute you were dependent, you could be abused.
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On the newspapers of the Craw Press: Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking.
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And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
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Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.
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To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.
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He's a layered person, so you have to tackle all the aspects of Tupac individually.
