Jason Mitchell Quotes
'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.
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When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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In Arab culture, music is for celebration. You don't play music at funerals.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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The book I always say that influenced me, subconsciously, because at the time I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, was William Goldman's 'Marathon Man.' That was the first adult thriller that I loved. I read it when I was 15 or so, when my father gave it to me.
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If you can get a laugh out of a name, you're ahead of the game.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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Truth is exact correspondence with reality.
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I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with guys.
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We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
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Ever since my childhood, I had seen my father carrying so many bags- suitcases with false bottoms , leather satchels or overnight bags, even those black briefcases that gave him a false air of repectability…. And I never knew just what was in them. ( 52 )
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How easy for those who do not bulgeTo not overindulge!
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It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something.
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He said he wasn't ready to come out. But then he sat down for a while, came back, and made a shot like that. We wanted him to rest his legs. Your legs can suffer when you take as many shots as he does.
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I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.
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She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.
