LZ Granderson Quotes
The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the main thing people overlook. And take a shower, take a bath every day.
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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One of the things I took from my wartime experiences was that reality was a stage set... the comfortable day-to-day life, school, the home where one lives and all the rest of it... could be dismantled overnight.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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Every time you pass a law, it is a little bite out of freedom.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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Niggas die everyday, all ova bullshitDope money, dice games, ordinary hood shitCould this be cuz of Hip Hop musicOr did the ones with the good sense not use it?
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First-time novelists have a tough row to hoe. Our publishers don’t have a lot of promotional budget to throw at unknown factors like us. Mostly, we rise and fall based on word-of-mouth.
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Andoya is in a different world, set at the northern edge of Europe in what seems to be a time and weather of its own.
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That's part of this industry. It's hard a lot of the time, especially when you get knocked down a lot. There's a lot of criticism and it's always in the back of your mind that you may never work again.
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By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.
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The more time we invest imitating others, the less that's available to discover and be ourselves.
