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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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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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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The jests of the rich are ever successful.
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I don't want to be known as the granddaughter of the Hiltons. I want to be known as Paris.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes you convinced there is a story that is worthwhile?
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No one can compare us to the apartheid regime. It's not like in South Africa between the blacks and the whites who belong to the same nation, or in Berlin where you find parents living on the eastern side and their children in the western side.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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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.
