DeRay Mckesson Quotes
Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.
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I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it too faithfully, it sounds a little stilted, because we often don't speak the way we speak in novels. Oral language is much punchier, shorter sentences.
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Being mayor is about offering a vision for the city, putting the right people in the right place, and executing that vision.
