John Paul DeJoria Quotes
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do realize that everybody has the same issues. It doesn't matter how much money you have or how much power you have, you are always afraid you're never going to see your child.
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The Human Rights Organisation deceives the world by calling itself a human rights council.
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respected by people I respect. And I wanted to be rich. It's best to get rich, then you can do what you want.
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And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.
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If you're not open, you're not transparent, you're still holding on to vaults of information, you're not going to build that trust.
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I'm an adrenaline guy. I like to do stuff that gets my blood pumping, like roller coasters or jumping out of planes. I'm into all that crazy stuff.
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I definitely would like to do some more dramatic roles.
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I love imperfections.
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I love a man bun.
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I've always had a tomboy look.
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Feminists who say that I switched sides because I am an opportunist should know that exactly the opposite is true. It's cost me a lot of money. I've gone from being well-to-do to being $70,000 in debt. I have done something self-destructive financially. I could only do it because I don't have to support a wife and child.
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I am a very complicated person.
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Fortunately, there is more to life than death. There is for one thing, fiction. A thousand thousand characters to be sent marching out into the world to divert time from its forward gallop to the terrible horizon.
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May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?I wish to retire till the party's over.
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The terrorists are busy in and outside the country in such activities which are a danger to the unity and integrity of the country.
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'Fabulosity' is to get up when you've been kicked down, and it's not to go after who kicked you down.
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I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
If the main character's not in jeopardy - physical, psychological, emotional, whatever - then you don't have any tension, and you don't have a story.
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We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.
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We tend to assume that we have a baseline of speech that's going to be normal in all contexts, but the truth is, we all change our ways of speaking depending on who we're talking to. And so I think it's kind of a gesture of politeness to the people you're speaking to to try to say something in their own idiom.
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I don't think any extremism is rational.
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I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.
