Storm Reid Quotes
You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.
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I think there are two aspects to ageing: there's the physical side and what's happening inside.
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I have a love/hate relationship with just about everything, but certainly with America.
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When a pointed question is beaten back with an attack or threat of, 'How dare you...' it's a reliable signal that deception is involved. Trump is a master at this.
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I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.
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The average Indian doesn't care about Hollywood movies because they have far too many movies of their own to watch, to miss, and I hope a story like 'Million Dollar Arm,' that is actually about India and deals with these two Indian kids, resonates over there and makes people want to go and see the movie.
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The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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There is no reason whatsoever to think that Buddhism can compete successfully with the relentless evangelizing of Christianity and Islam. Nor should it try to.
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I gravitate to the roles, not necessarily television or film. It's just the fact that, for me, the most interesting roles have been in television.
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I rode horses since I was a kid.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.
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As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
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God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.
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You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.
