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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  • Done
  • Night

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

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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  • Want
  • Way

• 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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  • Friends
  • Moving

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• 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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  • Childhood
  • Afraid

• 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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  • Pretty
  • Day

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

  

  Gail Carson Levine
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  • Real
  • Kids

• 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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  • Music
  • Society

• 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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  • Growing
  • Day

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

  

  Halima Aden
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  • Girl
  • Mom

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

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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  • Thought
  • Acting

• 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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  • Day
  • Same

• 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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  • Good
  • Live

• 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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  • Care
  • 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
  • Myself

• Stand-up, by far, is my favorite.

  

  Wanda Sykes
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  • Favorite
  • Far

• 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
  • Work
  • Prepare
  • Improviser

• Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.

  

  Randy Schekman
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  • Good
  • School

• I was brought up in Zimbabwe, and there were seven of us in my family, so it was difficult to read aloud to us all. There weren't that many picture books around in the Fifties in Zimbabwe. My favourite was Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter, which was really frightening.

  

  Korky Paul
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  • Family
  • Picture

• Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • People
  • Small
  • Space

• I'm awkward at these things. Just being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Karate Kid was a real surprise and I was a little uncomfortable.

  

  Pat Morita
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  • Best
  • Uncomfortable

• I watch one news channel until my soul can't take it anymore. It's the background of my life.

  

  John Oliver
  • Life
  • Soul

• I'm not a funny person.

  

  Johnny Flynn
  • Funny

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

  

  Pras Michel Fugees
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