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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I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
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It is often too late by the time the government reacts.
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I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.
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A high-school teacher, after all, is a person deputized by the rest of us to explain to the young what sort of world they are living in, and to defend, if possible, the part their elders are playing in it.
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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.
