John Ridley Quotes
For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
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Burroughs called his greatest novel 'Naked Lunch,' by which he meant it's what you see on the end of a fork. Telling the truth. It's very difficult to do that in fiction because the whole process of writing fiction is a process of sidestepping the truth. I think he got very close to it, in his way, and I hope I've done the same in mine.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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It's amazing. I love being an uncle.
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For children, diversity needs to be real and not merely relegated to learning the names of the usual suspects during Black History Month or enjoying south-of-the-border cuisine on Cinco de Mayo. It means talking to and spending time with kids not like them so that they may discover those kids are in fact just like them.
