Jordan Peele Quotes
You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.

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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
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I literally don't think about Oscar.
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I feel like Nashville has watched me grow up in front of them, which is cool, but it kind of sucks at the same time because you get pigeonholed, like, 'Oh, she's the girl with the long hair that wears fairy dresses.' That was me at one point because I was new and I was young. But we all grow up.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security.
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You get an audience to laugh and then show them something horrific, it's going to be even more horrific because they've had the release of the laugh before it.
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Our obsession with speed, with cramming more and more into every minute, means that we race through life instead of actually living it. Our health, diet and relationships suffer. We make mistakes at work. We struggle to relax, to enjoy the moment, even to get a decent night's sleep.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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I never lie to my fans.
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Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
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However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
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You see people all the time who are on hit shows and then you never hear from them again.
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When you're portraying someone that really existed, there has to be a time as an actress where you leave reality and move into the fantasy world so you can do your job of creating a character.
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You hear it said time and time again by successful directors: You have to make a movie for yourself. Don't make it for anyone else.