Future (Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn) Quotes
If I told a lie, then I got to come back and correct it years later. I hate that I have to be the person that touch on their life and be personal and be direct with certain situations, but man, I'm glad that it's me than them.
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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I got as much information as I could, so I wouldn't look stupid, but this is a post 9/11 world and there's only so much you can do with the FBI in terms of research.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I'm a lot more interested in people than I used to be. I used to be most interested in abstract ideas, and people were an afterthought, but that's changed a bit.
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I think the premise of somebody trying to recreate a night from their teenage years stuck with me as something potentially very tragically comic.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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I mean, any movie or story that makes you accept and be grateful for something about your life is doing something right.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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South Dakota is a great state because of its values, not because of dependence on government.
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While my mother wanted me to be a musician, I wanted to become an electronic engineer.
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I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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Fast bowling is an art, like spin bowling.
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As soon as I go to Wall Street, my customer - all of a sudden, I'm working for people that don't know me. They don't know how much I love what I do.
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Even on television, I am full of fake hair and covered in body makeup head-to-toe.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
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To be of mixed blood is a great gift for a writer. I have one foot on tribal lands and one foot in middle-class life.
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If I told a lie, then I got to come back and correct it years later. I hate that I have to be the person that touch on their life and be personal and be direct with certain situations, but man, I'm glad that it's me than them.
