Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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There were periods of my life when a lot of people didn't believe in me. I still had faith in myself. I really had to ask myself life questions. Where do I see myself in five years? Create a ladder for yourself, and walk up the steps. Climb that ladder.
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I'm always writing. A friend of mine once said, 'You avoid re-writing by writing.' Which is kind of a good point, because re-writing seems to be mostly about craft, and writing is just, like, getting out your passion on a piece of paper.
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If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing.
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The results of the Great Society experiments started coming in and began showing that, for all its good intentions, the War on Poverty was causing irreparable damage to the very communities it was designed to help.
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Actors can have a fair amount of hate for each other, so when another actor says, 'You did your thing,' or 'That was inspiring,' you can't really ask for more than that.
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I didn't have any great job prospects.
