Lennie James Quotes
The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
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I'm a fixer, unfortunately. I'm like, 'Oh, I can fix you.' But it's not just guys I'm dating anymore. It's this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.
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I still have my talent to produce and direct.
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Bella is my little dog. She's an imperial Shih Tzu. She's a little cotton ball with flecks of gold. She's super, super cute, and she eats like she's a Rottweiler.
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People can certainly take pride in the fact that there is a Jewish candidate for president who has received delegates and who has run a terrific campaign and still work hard to ensure we elect Hillary Clinton.
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The cry for the national home for the Jews does not make much appeal to me. The sanction for it is sought in the Bible and the tenacity with which the Jews have hankered after return to Palestine. Why should they not, like other peoples of the earth, make that country their home where they are born and where they earn their livelihood?
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The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
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The breadth of work that's possible is wider and deeper for someone who looks like me in the States than it is in the U.K.
