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 talk every day about doing the right thing.
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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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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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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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We're all going to keep telling love stories, we're all going to tell hero stories. It's all a question of what your own thumbprint, your own DNA, is, and what it brings to the table that makes it unique.
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People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.
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I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.
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I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.
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Study your craft, first. Then explore the business side. If you can commit to mastering both, then you're ready to pursue acting as a living. I really want people to understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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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.
