Ziggy Marley Quotes
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
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The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I don't like allegories.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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Isn't privacy about keeping taboos in their place?
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.
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Everybody can justify their actions. We all think that we're doing things for reasons that are meaningful to us. Maybe not to other people, but to us.
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
