Jermaine Dupri Mauldin (Jermaine Dupri) Quotes
Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is. So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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I do everything in a straightforward manner.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
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But as someone pointed out earlier, it is not really about fairness; it is about taking finite resources and applying them where they will have the most effect.
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I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.
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Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.
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The law sometimes sleeps; it never dies.
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Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.
