John Ridley Quotes
Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.
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The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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To write well and speak well is mere vanity if one does not live well.
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In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.
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Much as banks don't care where your money's coming from, the Electoral College is all 'don't ask, don't care' when it comes to votes.
