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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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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You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.
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Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.
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I love being active.
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No one deserves any more respect than the other person until they prove themselves unworthy.
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After it is said and done about who does what on the Batman assembly line, I do not underestimate all of the help I've received.
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My dad used to work a night shift when I was five years old, so I would get up when he went to work and watch Johnny Carson. I remember not knowing what was going on, but loving it.
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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.
