Orlando Jones Quotes
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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For me, seeing the target and not seeing the target doesn't make any difference.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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It became the joke of the neighbourhood. If the umpire ruled me out on a bad call, I'd take the fake eye out and hand it to him.
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Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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How many things are there which I do not want.
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I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
