Jay Kay Quotes
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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With ladder matches, you can't expect anything other than craziness.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I like being active and riding a bike around my neighborhood and exercising when I can.
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Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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Race and gender definitely came up, occasionally, in my life at work. But the bigger challenge that I had was age. I took roles earlier in my career than people expected, and so a lot of what I got was, 'Do you actually know enough to do this?'
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Often when you get a really good script, and you receive the new pages, you see that the entire thing has been dumbed down. Films in the '30s and '40s, that were huge blockbusters, were very sophisticated in their language, and the ideas they brought. There were no questions about whether the audience would get it or not.
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I describe myself as a big kid with an old soul, I'm very playful whimsical, but I definitely have that old soul as well.
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For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.
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Freedom, that he always thought was outward motion, turns out to be this inward dwindling.
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I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn't pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.
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I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.
