John Ridley Quotes
Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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I feel like I'm supposed to be a shooter.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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My arm bones looked like chicken bones.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.
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Summer is not obligatory. We can start an infernally hard jigsaw puzzle in June with the knowledge that, if there are enough rainy days, we may just finish it by Labor Day, but if not, there's no harm, no penalty. We may have better things to do.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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It took a lot for me to be able to say that I'm a plus-size model or a model at all without feeling terror or this kind of panic, because it was something so unplanned.
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Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
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Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.
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I decided to be a part of 'Bajrangi'... because I felt that it tells a very relevant story.
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Translation is the art of failure.
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We really spend a lot of time on building relationships. And so when everyone is like, 'How do you break so many stories?' it's because I build relationships. I do it the old-fashioned way, and I build sourcing relationships, and then I take advantage of those relationships over time.
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Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.
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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.
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Do you suppose she's a wildflower?
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My father was always clowning around. It was a huge influence on me. In my family, everything is turned into a joke.
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We also had a beautiful feature where the writer used the story of two mentally ill relatives, one of whom killed his dad, to explore the history of how we deinstitutionalized the mentally ill, only to re-institutionalize them - but in jails and prisons. There's much more to come.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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I'm certain that it was an incredible gift for me to not only be friends with some of the greatest blues people who've ever lived, but to learn how they played, how they sang, how they lived their lives, ran their marriages, and talked to their kids.
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Let's be very clear: Living 'unforgiven' is not the sole domain of blacks. It can be found in any successful person.
