Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes
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A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.
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I'm really about my family and really proud of being a Carter.
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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Always it gave me a pang that my children had no lawful claim to a name.
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Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enough was Phoenix. I just thought her story line was so tragic. I was just really drawn to that character as well.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
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I'm a bed monster.
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
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I'm giving away my family's story. Who owns the family's story? I don't. But you could turn it around and ask, 'Who is to deny me to write my family's story?' I have hurt people, but I don't think in a dangerous way. But you can't tell.
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I read every script from beginning to end, and I read every draft that I can. I like the show, I like the character, and I want to protect both of those things.
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Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.
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My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.
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I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.
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The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part.
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I don't have a huge acting background at all.
