Jimmy Cliff Quotes
I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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If you really want to be competitive in today's market you have to be in movies that make money.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I remember we woke up one morning at Denny's house and John Phillips called. He said, you guys okay? We said, yeah, what's wrong, what's going on? He said, well, everybody's dead over at Sharon's house at Terry Melcher's place.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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I find it hard to act unprofessionally because I can't do drama at school, it's hard for me to do drama out of school, I don't have time any more. I dance as well. I don't have time to work and dance and still have a good social life. I miss that security but I'm hoping that this is a good time for me. I'm trying to do as much as possible to get myself out there and hopefully it will work out.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
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I am not afraid... I was born to do this.
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We have a tendency to be in our heads’ … Dancing is about letting go of the mind [and] the ego and finding the power of the body.
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I used to do a little acting in school. It was my first love, and I really thought I would be doing it as a career. I really wanted to complete that part of my ambition.
