Jay Kay Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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The textile industry became a huge deal in 19th century America, kind of like the tech industry is today. And that immigrant tradition continues, especially in tech, America's most dominant and dynamic industry today.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.
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If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.
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I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
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It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.
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Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.
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Work begets work. Just work. If you work, people will find out about you and want to work with you if you're good. So work anywhere you can. That's why I've changed my mind about these theatres where people work for free or have to pay money. I think it's kind of terrible that they feel they have to, but you know what? They're working.
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The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of.
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In my mind, there's a time and a place for putting your foot down.
