Boots Riley (Raymond Lawrence Riley) Quotes
I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Writing has always been an interest of mine, and 'The Language of Flowers' combined my experience with foster care with something I've always wanted to do.
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I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.
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People love stories. They need stories.
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I was always interested in baseball. In fact, in my younger years, I played it in an amateur way. But up to the time when I became identified with the Yankees, I was a strong National League rooter.
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Schools shouldn't have to choose between serving a student with special needs or cutting an art class, laying off teachers or using outdated textbooks. But these are the positions that far too many schools have been placed in, and only a meaningful acknowledgment of the problem can begin the process of getting them out.
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I've been playing music since I was born.
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When you live in hysteria, people start thinking emotionally.
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If we are not represented, we are slaves.
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In England, we're around so much American culture and TV anyway, so it's an accent that's always in our ear.
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On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.
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Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.
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I prefer to play against the best players and the best teams and the best coaches. Never personal.
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Photographers can either look out the window at the world or they can look in the mirror.
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If time, so fleeting, must like humans die, let it be filled with good food and good talk, and then embalmed in the perfumes of conviviality.
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Art was not simply a foregone conclusion, the final link in a causal chain. It was not the inevitable outcome of an evolving ‘aesthetic sense’, as some writers suggest.
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A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
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I think there's something your hormones do that makes a chemical change in the way you think.
