Jay Kay Quotes
I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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American management thinks that they can just copy from Japan. But they don't know what to copy.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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Sergio Leone was a big influence on me because of the spaghetti westerns.
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Everyone loves Beyonce. If you don't love Beyonce, we can't talk.
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When such acting powerhouses take note of your work and express their appreciation, it is an overwhelming feeling. I could not believe it when Rishi ji tweeted. Then Amitji and Rekha ma'am sent handwritten letters, which I have read more than fifty times. 'Dangal' is a very special film for me, and these are my lifetime treasure.
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I think - more than anything, I think I'd really like to start producing and be in charge of the stuff that I want to see in the world and the stuff that interests me.
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Every two weeks, I'd get a small pay-check and notice the line where federal and state income taxes were deducted from my wages. At least as often, our drug-addict neighbor would buy T-bone steaks, which I was too poor to buy for myself but was forced by Uncle Sam to buy for someone else.
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Let this be my last word, that I trust in thy love.
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Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh forever.
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Quare religio pedibus subiecta vicissimopteritur, nos exaequat victoria caelo.
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'Salam aleikum.'
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Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them...
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We are going through a period with no precedent in American history.
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But even though all this was going on at home, if someone had tried to take me away and put me in a children's home, I couldn't have handled it. Even though my mother was very brutal, it was my home.
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It's just rock and roll. A lot of times we get criticized for it. A lot of music papers come out with: 'When are they going to stop playing these three chords?' If you believe you shouldn't play just three chords it's pretty silly on their part. To us, the simpler a song is, the better, 'cause it's more in line with what the person on the street is.
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Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.
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My annoyance became frustration, which became anger, which became hate, and hate is a long-burning fuel.
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I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.
