Jordan Peele Quotes
The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.

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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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It's a great challenge to get to play a real-life character. Every actor would love to get a chance, at least once in his life, to play a real-life character.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I have an enormous metabolism, so I'm lucky.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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I can't deal with someone flashy. That's so not me.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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Just several years ago, Shaykh Kabbani, who is the head of the Islamic Supreme Council of America, when he was speaking at the State Department, said that more than 80 percent of the mosques were controlled by extremists. And from all I've seen over the last four or five years, the situation has even gotten worse.
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I feel respect is in your hands as an actor when portraying a character, particularly when it's from the Indian subcontinent. I do make a conscious effort to do so and often talk to the directors especially about the heavy accent when it's not needed.
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Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.
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My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.
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The way I look at it is, when you allow people to submerge themselves into a story, they will react by thinking through what it's about. That's just so much more fun and effective, I think, than a lecture.