Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.
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Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
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Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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I know my father and my mother, but beyond that I cannot go. My ancestry is blurred.
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I am proud of having done what I've done. Very proud.
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I'm about to become a member of the Chemists Society of America. I'm very proud of that.
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Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting.
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I think there's a big difference between loving someone out of duty and dependency and loving someone because you really are able to sort of grow and be whole in the context of that relationship.
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We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
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I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.
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I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.
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My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.
