Orlando Jones Quotes
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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If I'm confirmed, I'll be myself.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
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You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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So much history can be lost if no one tells the story - so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.
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Beijing didn't go the way I planned and I would have liked to have performed a little bit better personally. After Beijing that is what stuck in my mind. I want a better Olympic finish.
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Los Angeles has interested me for a long time. I was in Texas for five years, for the same reason. I wanted to photograph there.
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I'm challenging myself to reverse the hate.
