Jason Pierre-Paul Quotes
I am a great pass rusher. I'm not saying, 'Do you think you can be?' I know I am. I am.
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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'Piku' was driven by subtleties. Most films come with the padding of the sound, the visual, the drama.
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We all accept the world would be safer without Saddam's baleful dictatorship.
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By willing endurance we cause suffering to pass. Evil becomes a spent force when we put up no resistance. By refusing to pay back the enemy with his own coin, and preferring to suffer without resistance, the Christian exhibits the sinfulness of contumely and insult. Violence stands condemned by its failure to evoke counter-violence.
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I am a great pass rusher. I'm not saying, 'Do you think you can be?' I know I am. I am.
