Stelios Haji-Ioannou Quotes
Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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Acting is like driving; you can never forget it, and it's in my blood.
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For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.
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I suspect that young adults crave stories of broken futures because they themselves are uneasily aware that their world is falling apart.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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I don't believe in hatred anymore. I hate to think of how it felt before When anger overwhelms your very soul It's hard to realize you'll ever knowLove like we do.
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
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I've never really worried about being called soft or people thinking I'm soft. If anybody wants to step and take that challenge, I'm more than happy - off the court - because I don't want to get suspended.
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I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.
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I loved being a soprano. It was one of my very favorite things in life, and thus far, and losing that voice was a profound emotional moment for me in my life. I never became that interested in my adult male singing voice.
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The things that I have said when I was young and curious about whatever the subject matter was, I respect those - those are growing pains. Even if you make mistakes, I go back to those things, my not-so-great moments because those are my truest moments; those are my human moments. I'm not even mad at the things I said that were a little dicey.
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To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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When you do it yourself, you feel better.
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Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
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Even if someone is competent, it's so damned easy to crucify him as long as he's only working on his father's account. So at the beginning I certainly wanted to prove myself to my father and the rest of society. That quickly turned into a greater challenge. My lifestyle hasn't changed as a result.
