Malik Jackson Quotes
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We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely not. The city has been completely taken over by the rich.
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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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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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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 sick of running away from things.
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On my second swim at Deception Island, the water was very clear and I was looking at hundreds of whale bones beneath me. It was a graveyard from the whaling some time in the 1920s-30s.
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Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
