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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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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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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Hi and Merry Christmas. I’m honored to have a chance to speak with you and your family this year. Recently we learned that our governments, working in concert, have created a system of worldwide system of mass surveillance watching everything we do. Great Britain’s George Orwell warned us of the danger of this kind of information.
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It was a lovely morning. We have not had many lovely days. And the sun was just coming through the stained glass windows and falling on some flowers right across the church and it just occurred to me that this was the day I was meant not to see.
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I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.
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Good tempo. You've got to keep them off balance.
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I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.
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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.
