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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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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La mémoire de la plupart des hommes est un cimetière abandonné, où gisent sans honneurs des morts qu'ils ont cessé de chérir.
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You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'
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No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
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'The Last Seduction,' 'Sleepless in Seattle' and 'While You Were Sleeping' did a lot to get me noticed for bigger roles.
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Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope.
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The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
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I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal.
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I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?
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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.
