Ja Rule Quotes
Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
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I have a book coming out in September, for example, where the plot concerns counterfeiting, and I had to do a lot of research on that. Or on any legal matters, for example, I have to do a lot of research online.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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There was a big horror boom in the '80s, and I liked its originality and what you could get away with.
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True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
