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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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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There is a big difference between using V.C. money that you blow and spending your own personal money.
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
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Occasionally, I've been asked to do American roles, and once or twice I have, but I don't understand Americans. I don't have any real feeling for American culture.
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We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.
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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.
