Linton Kwesi Johnson Quotes
The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.
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Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.
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Football will always be my foremost passion.
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I know a lot of people who enjoy rap music who aren't black. You can't just say it's black music. To segregate films the way Hollywood likes to segregate films, ultimately everyone loses.
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Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.
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I got joked on. You had people saying I was stupid, that I was lame, that I was feminine, this and that. I was like, 'OK, but I'm still gonna be successful, and you're not.'
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The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.
