Pras Michel Quotes

When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
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• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• I ended up in the US for a month or so, before moving to Montreal with some Romanian friends.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• People are like, 'Was it hard growing up mixed?' 'Did you not fit in?' and I'm like, 'No? What? That's the dumbest question ever.'

  

  Laura Harrier
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• I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

  

  Patrick Stewart
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• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• Sometimes the kids come up with better endings than the real story.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
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• I brought in a yogurt master from Turkey. I went to Greece. I was always going back and forth, from New York to Turkey and Greece. The recipe we use has been around hundreds and hundreds of years. Growing up in Turkey, not a day would go by that we wouldn't eat yogurt like this.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
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• When you're warm and approachable, you don't have to go up and talk non-stop to someone in a social situation. You just have to be open to the conversations you're already having - and warm and receptive to the people you're meeting.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
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• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
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  • Girl
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• Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• Anormal day looks like, you know, shower, put on the same jeans, the same tattered Gucci loafers I got at the thrift store, white socks, and my t-shirt and my very beat-up Helmut Lang blazer. I'm in the exact same outfit every day.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
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• I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many of my neighbours for between 50-60 years. Gordon and I play chess every day, and we are both equally bad. We play chatty, over-talkative bad bridge with friends every week.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• I don't care who you are or what you have gone through - everyone has something they are fighting for.

  

  Cara Castronuova
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  • Everyone

• I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.

  

  Karen Robards
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  • Time
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• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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• I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.

  

  Marlin Stutzman
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• To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.

  

  Karen Robards
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  • Books

• What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.

  

  Joe Klein
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• When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

  

  Jeremy Clarkson
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• I went to so many sleepovers where these parents were reading the 'Book of Revelation' before bed and things like that. I would listen to that stuff, and I would sit there and say to myself, 'If God is so great and so good, why is there this list of rules?' Like, you go to hell if you don't believe in him and hold him up above everyone else.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
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• When we came up with titles like Ready or Not, that's how we really felt.

  

  Pras Michel Fugees
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