Jay-Z (Shawn Corey Carter) Quotes
You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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I just remember watching 'Brass Eye' and being so utterly blown away by the scope of it and how much it managed to cram into an episode.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.
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I don't sleep at night at all. Making movies is a marathon. I'm a good 100-yard-dash guy.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.
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Success is about honour, feeling morally calibrated, absence of shame, not what some newspaper defines from an external metric.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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It's physically hard for me to work. I start to break down, physically. My joints start. I get weepy eyes. I don't sleep well. I was never a hard worker, I guess. So the voiceover work ethic is really great for me - couple days a month, two hours a day.
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You dread that there will be real problems during filming.
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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I'm not an easy customer. My attention to detail could probably drive you mad. My eye still always goes toward the single flaw.
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William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.
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I went to Irish dance when I was four. I was playing the tin whistle when I was five. So I think certain things are bred into you.
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He was my everything and I will love him forever.
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When you have a spiritual foundation, you look at poverty differently then.
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We need to secure the border and build the wall; we need to end sanctuary cities, deport criminals, and bring law and order back to this country.
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You can want success all you want, but to get it, you can’t falter. You can’t slip. You can’t sleep. One eye open, for real, and forever.
