Jack Kerouac Quotes
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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I get offers all the time from film makers, but they are unknown quantities. I don't go there and do experiments.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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I was 25 years old when I arrived in D.C. It was just myself and two people who worked and helped me in the kitchen. I was only cooking for three people most of the time.
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One of my personal plights in this business is about playing 'The Sassy Black Girl.'
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I just feel like, with rappers, there's so much complacency. It's like, 'Oh, I'm a rapper. I'm successful. I make money. That's all that matters.' But there's a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you're aware of it, it's happening.
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For me, I thought I had the best job in the world.
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It baffles me that everything is so homogenized, because the world isn't, and yet we continue to support things that are so incredibly milquetoast.
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It sounds super cliche, but my sister is 12 years younger than me, and I remember when I was there holding her in my arms for the first time. And that kind of responsibility you feel when you hold a child in your arms.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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I can say I love working with women. Film is a man's world, and I really appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with women, especially young women.
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I cultivated this fan base that I really didn't really understand or appreciate until I put my first headlining tour up for sale. 500- to 1,000-capacity rooms weren't an underplay for me at the time. I'd never done a tour before!
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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White House officials acknowledge in broad terms that a president's time and public rhetoric are among his most valuable policy tools.
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I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.
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Gay guys love women who are tough, who are survivors. They always call me a diva. And I am a survivor; I've pulled through everything and I've not become bitter about it.
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The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and his ilk. My take on all this was that it's a metaphor for empire and the end of empire.
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I haven't thought about getting into production. I'm interested in the creative aspect of storytelling.
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
