Jim Diamond Quotes
I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
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Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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I learned to walk on my own legs, to dive so deeply into a role to forget that I'm acting.
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Reed College required a thesis for a Bachelor's degree. Normally a Bachelor's is sort of like being stamped 'Prime US Beef.' They just walk you through, hand out the diplomas and you fill in your name later on.
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I am a simple man who comes from a village, and villagers like us speak our mind. Now, in the process, if unknowingly my words came across as disrespectful or insulting, then I am deeply sorry. I don't want to hurt anyone.
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My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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I'm delighted to be Number 1, but next week I don't want people to buy my record, I want them to buy Band Aid.
