Jean-Michel Basquiat Quotes
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to make films. That's really all I ever wanted to do.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie. Everyone has a cousin who they think you should work with.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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It's hard to say, 'I don't believe in God.' I would love to know if God exists. But it's a very difficult thing for me to believe.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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Frances Conroy - brilliant, brilliant actress.
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Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal...
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And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.
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Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you're doomed; you're finished.
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I don't want everyone to read anything; I like us all reading different books.
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Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
