Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) Quotes
Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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I have the idea that anyone who has ever heard my name has the distinct impression that I was put under the sod years ago just before they buried Lillian Russell.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I just want to try writing for other people 'cause it's quite exciting.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I'm getting rid of this idea that you want people to like you. I'm making decisions on what feels right to me. To act in a more carnal way. That's my challenge.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left.
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I enjoy real people, down-to-earth people who are true to themselves and honest to your face - good or bad.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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I was always the weirdo at school.
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The parents get stigmatized as not having control over their kids when they can't get them to school in time. Children themselves get stigmatized as avoiding school or lazy. There's a lot of baggage associated with it.
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Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
