CJ Fly (Chaine Downer Jr.) Quotes
I used to like smoking before I recorded, but, now it's just kind of like thinking about executing it... I just want it to be the best and all that. That's what really gets me in the zone nowadays. I want to put my best foot forward and make a statement.
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I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.
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Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.
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For The Truman Show, I worked for a few weeks, do my gig, then I was done.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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So I had the opportunity to do what the kids in the Hershey program do, except that the Hershey program lets them do it on such a larger scale, with the regional and national competitions.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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That's sort of what we wanted to do: conquer from the margins, sort of find our place in the middle based on the fact that we were creatures of the margin and of alienation.
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I believe in glamour. I am in favor of a little vanity. I don't rely on just my genes.
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Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Being successful is about professionalism, and chewing gum is unprofessional. Its also a huge pet peeve of mine.
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I wouldn't want to stop making those gaffes, even if I could. People realise I am flesh and blood. I am not sensitive about it. It's just my enthusiasm. I want to say so much more than I have time for.
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Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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One thing I'm afraid of is not taking advantage of opportunities. I feel like these are kind of gifts.
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I used to like smoking before I recorded, but, now it's just kind of like thinking about executing it... I just want it to be the best and all that. That's what really gets me in the zone nowadays. I want to put my best foot forward and make a statement.
