Jordan Peele Quotes
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I was a tomboy.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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It always annoys me when stars grumble about fans coming up to them in the street. I love it. These young stars today with all their airs and graces, they need to remember it is an honour and a privilege to make money from acting. How hard is it?
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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I create from a place of passion. It's like a pregnancy, where you create from a place of passion, and then it grows, and then before you know it, you want to push that baby out.
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I've had money thrown onstage, dollars, couple of five-dollar bills. I took the money, but it wasn't much.
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All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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There is no such thing as a stationary tradition. Traditions are always developing, living things.
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People are very afraid of any controversy. We've become very passive spectator types. And when the kids were protesting globilization - quite reasonably - they really got bashed.
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Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
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I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.
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Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.
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I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.
