Lemn Sissay Quotes
My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Clothes have to be simple and comfortable.
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.
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I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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I probably spend the most time with Toews: we have the same schedule, and we're roomies on the road; we sit next to each other. We do a lot of promotions together.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
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I try to go throughout my daily life just as if nothing has changed, but you don't have much anonymity anymore, which feels really good. People come up, and say hi and they enjoy your work.
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For me to be as effective as possible, I intend to sharpen those skills I need to successfully lead an organization that is growing in size and complexity with each passing year.
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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Puppets interacting with other puppets is super complicated. You're juggling ten balls instead of three.
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I love biting off more than I can chew and figuring it out.
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I moved to a city and joined a sort of fast crowd. A lot of people who grew up in the city sort of aren't aware of manners and other ways of life and 'common decency.'
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My real mother is a survivor, very strong and respected by the people who know her, but our relationship is not easy - but then, it was never going to be.
