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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Bill and his brother-in-law had shot a deer and drove it in to get processed. At a rest stop, a woman stops at the truck
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I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
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For a lot of us, we feel nostalgic about something with distance, and then [when] we go back to that thing, you remember why we left in the first place.
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The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.
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New York is the biggest mouth in the world. It appears to be prime example of the herd instinct, leading the universal urban conspiracy to beguile man from his birthright (the good ground), to hang him by his eyebrows from skyhooks above hard pavement, to crucify him, sell him, or be sold by him.
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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.