J. Cole (Jermaine Lamarr Cole) Quotes
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The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.
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When the opportunity came along to do 'Win, Lose or Draw,' I took it selfishly to find out if I did enjoy being me on camera. And I did that for the last two years I was doing 'Mama's Family.'
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I can hardly decide what plays I should be in.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I think I'm a better mother because of work, because I'm happy. If I wasn't working, I would just be waiting for the kids to come home every day, and living vicariously through their lives.
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A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.
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The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
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I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.
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It's always magical when you're out here, because anything can happen.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
