Jordan Peele Quotes
There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
Quotes to Explore
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It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them.
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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Growing up under Saddam's rule, I witnessed many injustices occurring everyday in my country and yet I could not do anything to prevent them.
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What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent.
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My hair was curly, and everyone else's was straight or in micro braids. I didn't have a lot of money, so I shopped at thrift stores. And I'm petite - I never looked shapely. I remember thinking, 'Will I ever have that stereotypical round, full butt that people think most black women have? I had to find another way to feel good about myself.
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One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people.
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I expect my immortality will last about six seconds after my funeral.
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There is something transformative if you're a black person cheering in a theater and turn to see a white person cheering for the same thing you are.
