Michael B. Jordan Quotes
Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].
Quotes to Explore
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
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All the definitions people want to put on you in terms of what kind of writer you are come with hidden meanings. If you're writing science fiction, you're writing rocket ships. If you write dystopian fiction, it's inequity where The Man must be fought.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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I love all the attention, people noticing me. 'There's the gymnast. There she is!'
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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I write by stealing time. The hours in the day have never felt as if they belonged to me. The greatest number has belonged to my day job as a physician and professor of medicine - eight to 12 hours, and even more in the early days.
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I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back. When you don't enjoy it, that's the time to pack it in.
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Idling is not my strong suit.
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I feel like Barack Obama, kind of in a political sense, embodies that same kind of spirit as a Q-Tip or a Santogold or a Common. I feel like there is a synergy going on here in this country and abroad. I feel like the doors are open, and it's time to push them wide open.
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I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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He alone loves the Creator perfectly who manifests a pure love for his neighbor.
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Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
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Ch. 11 : LSD Experience and Reality
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The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.
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Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
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Bill Goldberg kicked me in the head and ended my career because he didn't know what he was doing.
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I'd like to stand up in those classes and announce to the world that I'm too busy to be Irish or Catholic or anything else, that I'm working day and night to make a living, trying to read books for my courses and falling asleep in the library ....
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Acting for me sometimes is taking whatever personal experiences I have and try to apply that [to a role].
