Jason Pierre-Paul Quotes
We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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The pressure makes me more intent about each shot. Pressure on the last few holes makes me play better.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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Here on Earth there was undoubtedly a Christ. One of the reasons he swept in so suddenly and he would go forward so hard is, he had a good assist in back of him in terms of an implant.
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Comedy's about opening up and being unique, but to a point where the audience can relate to what you're saying.
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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
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We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.
