Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes
In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Eating ready-made meals is about being very passive, and actively cooking is something that nothing compares to.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Justice is revenge.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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I did not know I was a Midwesterner until I got there. I just fell in love with the people.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.
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George loves the T Rex because it's the noisiest and the scariest.
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I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.
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In high school, we would do improv. Me and my boy were, like, the stars of the class.
