Kasi Lemmons Quotes
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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I like risky stuff.
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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My character in 'Batman v Superman' isn't supposed to be Japanese, but director Zack Snyder said he'd seen me in 'Wolverine' and had to get me in the film somehow. Hearing that was like music to my ears.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I would love to win the Champions League once again. Winning big trophies like the Champions League or the World Cup is usually making people think, 'The players are not hungry any more.' Still, that's not what I feel.
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If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
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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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Being in a Woody Allen film. I cherish it.
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Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
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I couldn't be a royal. It's like living in a supersonic goldfish bowl.
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I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.
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The 1910 Edison film of 'Frankenstein' was itself a dead thing revived by technology.
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I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.
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Most people don't see the edginess in my work. They think it's all fantasy and whimsy.
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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
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It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.
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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.
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If I like a film, I usually appreciate the way it was made the first time.
