Jovan Adepo Quotes
All young men can relate to that moment where they have to - or, rather, attempt to - stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.
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My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
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The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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The fans are always at the hotel waiting, they like to get pictures and autographs. I enjoy it all, the displays of love and support at the hotel and the shows.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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The average taxpayer in Germany or Japan pays less for the defense of his country than the average taxpayer in America pays for the defense of Germany or Japan.
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Every time I could possibly be doing stand up, I am.
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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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All young men can relate to that moment where they have to - or, rather, attempt to - stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.
