J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
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There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little.
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For the first two weeks of filming, I remember bristling at some of the occurrences on the set, none of which directly involved me. Then I surrendered to the environment, to Michael's method, and became much happier, even though no one knew what to expect.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Not to sound bad, but some girls are dumb. It's because they spend so much of their life trying to have the right look. On the other hand, some girls are just really smart. There are girls you can have conversations with that are healthy conversations. You can argue real life issues and solve problems together. That is what makes a woman sexy.
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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.
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You know, I'm very proud of the large number of Hispanic endorsements that I've received.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.
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To be honest, I don't even exactly know how to set up a Google alert. My brother has me on Google alert. So do my parents. But I'm not even sure how it works.
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As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
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I like to reinvent with each project, in any which way possible.
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I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete.
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I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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The more people know about you, the more face-time you get in the media, the harder your job becomes to create a character in whom people suspend disbelief.
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I was a class clown. At 12, I was definitely clowning. I was making all the jokes. But I was smart, so the teachers didn't know what to do with me.
