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 doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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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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Everybody plays back-to-backs.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Something amazing happens when you're in love and don't give a damn about what day it is anymore.
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The only reason I'm in 'Kingsman' is because Matthew enjoys playing with the unexpected. I'm not playing Harry Hart because I'm the butchest actor in Britain. I'm playing it because he said I'm the last person anyone would expect to see in that role!
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A work of visionary art can shock a person out of their normal thinking patterns and help them to see the world in a new way, helping them to transfigure their perception of reality. Obviously, it's only one of many potential catalysts to healing and transformation, but I think it can be a significant one.
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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.
