Michael B. Jordan Quotes
For me the movie [Fruitvale Station ] wasn't about that. The movie's about [Oscar Grant] life. And what happens on the platform is a very short part of the film. It's from Oscar's perspective. From the perspectives of the relationships that he's involved with.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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Making music is pretty much the only thing I can do.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I think Twitter is best when it sparks conversations elsewhere. To use YouTube and Facebook and all the tools we have available to us today to respond and also promote and answer and engage is awesome.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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Love is a state of being.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will share it with me. I wake up to 10-15 links that people have explicitly recommended for me. I don't have to look for news anymore; it flows to me.
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I'm surrendering myself to the realities of the Internet.
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In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of conspecifics is several thousand times greater than the highest homicide rate in any American city.
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The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea.
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The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.
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For me the movie [Fruitvale Station ] wasn't about that. The movie's about [Oscar Grant] life. And what happens on the platform is a very short part of the film. It's from Oscar's perspective. From the perspectives of the relationships that he's involved with.
