Malik Jackson Quotes
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
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When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When you are the invisible man to the head coach, the only option is to head for the exit.
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One always wonders about roads not taken.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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If you're not going to wear a tiara when you win a Newbery Award, when are you going to wear one?
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.
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I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
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Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?
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The chief impression left by a study of Crowley's life and works is that he wasted an immense amount of time and energy trying to shock everyone he came into contact with, and his dislike of orthodoxy turned him into an unconsciously comic figure, like Don Quixote.
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I don't think about the success that I've had - I've had a lot of success with music - but I always look at it like it's a new day.
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It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
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We need literature because we wouldn’t fully know ourselves without it. We need good literature to be fully human.
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Don't give up. It's really important to trust your impulses as an artist no matter what anybody else says.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
