Jock Sturges Quotes
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
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I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
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You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.
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Military brats have this toughness: they're almost like orphans or foster children; they develop little mechanisms. It sets you up to look at things a little differently.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different artists, and I put them in my music, and I put them in my persona and my - they help me form into the artist that I am, so - for people to actually hear that come through the music is exciting.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
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I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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It's nice to stay up nights worrying about the material, and not about the investors who gave you $10 million to do your musical.
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I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.
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Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single car dealer; I knew every style of every year.
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I adore watching movies; movie marathons are my favorite pastime. I can watch up to five movies back to back. I also love music and like reading whenever I get the time.
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At school, I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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I don't believe in pressure. The pressure is not being prepared for what you want to do.
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Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong to themselves to a greater and greater extent.
