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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He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
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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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The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
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My childhood was spent with dogs, and I work with dogs surrounding me. This relationship is hardly unique - man-and-dog stories date back to ancient history, up to 10,000 years ago - but it feels that way to me. I used to have a love-hate relationship with dog stories because some got the dynamic right but most were dead wrong.
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Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.
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It's a real buzz, even in front of 20 people, to make a complete fool of yourself. But people seemed to like it. And the thing is, if people started throwing tomatoes at me, I wouldn't have gone on with it.
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My father's relationship with Pac was something I was proud of.
