Lennie James Quotes
I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
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You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.
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I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.
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Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses... the louses.
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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Self-justification is a treacherous servant.
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The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something to-morrow which I never saw before.
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'This fellow,' he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, 'will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.'
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N.B. this book and pensées not important and the temptation to mistake them for Creation must be resisted.
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Business has to be fun. For too many people, it's 'just a job.'
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Here's ivy! - take them, as I used to do Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine. Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true, And tell thy soul, their roots are left in mine.
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You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.
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You want to feel like people are hiring you because they want to work with you, not because of who your parents are.
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Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin
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I know how it feels to be completely alone and helpless, and the last thing you want to hear in that situation is, 'It's going to be OK.' "The only thing that seems to really help is that someone else who has felt that low expressing those feelings to you.
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I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.
