Demetrius Shipp, Jr. Quotes
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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When Bob Wilson left the BBC for ITV, I got the 'Football Focus' job, and it went from there. It came completely out of the blue, but the fact I had a high profile certainly helped.
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No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.
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I might literally fall over dead if I meet Oprah Winfrey. I'm kind of joking, but I'm not confident that wouldn't happen.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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A lot of people get Chicago wrong. I've developed this protective feeling about how we're portrayed, and at the same time, I'm acutely aware of the issues we face and the root causes of these issues.
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Basically for me a story can be anything. Anything you tell me, anything I read in the newspaper, in any mode. I don't have any restrictions.
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People talk about the miracle of birth. No. There's the miracle of conception. I did IVF, but nothing happened. So I began to think of adoption, and then I got pregnant. It was definitely a miracle.
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We were content to be undisturbed in our our little backwater, Union Grove, Washington County, in a place once called the Empire State, where the Battenkill runs into the Hudson River.
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I'm a strong believer in the things that I want to do.
