Derrick Rose Quotes
In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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What you see is what you get.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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When I was in the Army, 100 percent of our effort was to really be sharp, and soldiers, we were under live fire all the time.
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Being vulnerable was difficult for me at first because I've said things in my songs about how I felt that I never told anybody.
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No problem is too big to run away from.
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Ici nous ignorons dans quel climat nous sommes ;ici nous ignorons et les lieux et les hommes :des honneurs solennels vous paîront vos bienfaits.
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The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble.
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In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.
