Burning Spear (Winston Rodney) Quotes
When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
Quotes to Explore
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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In the country, it feels like you don't have control over nature anymore - nature is in control of you.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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When I go into the studio, I completely detach. I let my emotions come out.
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It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
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There are a lot of people I would have liked to have collaborated with, and would still like to.
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I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.
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I do films that I'd also like to watch as an audience member.
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When Marcus Garvey spoke about self-reliance, he wasn't only talking about people of colour. It's like self-reliance in general, for anyone. Just keep moving and moving within the right direction, and everything will be all right.
