Studs Terkel Quotes
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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I was a confused young girl with so much tragedy. Sometimes when you're going through stuff, the last person you're thinking exists is God. I mean, it was my confusion, the anger that was in my heart, all that drama. But thank God I know God now, okay?
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For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.
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I have so much fun because I love to meet the women who wear my shoes and meet the clients. That, to me, is the best part - getting to know the faces of the people who actually wear my shoes and getting to have a conversation with them.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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I talk periodically with the producers at EA and I try to be as honest as possible because as great as EA does, you just don't want to hear good things. These people are really passionate about making games and making them as realistic as possible.
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When something comes up that attacks people's beliefs, their first reaction tends to be fear.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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Labels, boxes, and politically correct terminology all seem small and irrelevant when being compared to the violent and brutal attacks on the lives of people who are different than what society says we should be.
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I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.
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I've been doing this for 33 years, and sometimes you make movies and nobody cares. But when people care, it's the greatest thing in the world - even when it's passionately against the title - because it's going to start a conversation.
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I want to plug back into the hip-hop audience. Whether it be fans who grew up watching 'Yo!', or people who have become familiar with the culture via the Internet.
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You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.
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Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.
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We have to stick to the message: What are we proposing to the American people? Not, 'What are we fighting against?'
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Women are very different to men, and that hasn't been respected. So when people say there's never been a good woman painter or poet or engineer or whatever, they don't understand that our skills are many simultaneously and men's skills are single.
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Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
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Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
