Chris Tucker Quotes
Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.
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I have got the best of both worlds; growing up in Edinburgh and now living outside Glasgow.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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To catch the ball, face up, look at all of my options and then pass. I was playing hot potato. I didn't want to be the guy to stall the triangle.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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It's not the last one. Five's out, six is coming out in November, that's a single chapter, and then seven is the big horrifying one. And I think a couple after that to wrap the thing up.
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I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.
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California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on it. I can imagine she might've told the record label, 'Oh, God, you're not releasing that!' But I'm glad they did.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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My family is from the South, and I can remember all those ladies I grew up with, like my great-aunts, who had handkerchiefs. There's something sweet about them.
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This is my job. I just wake up, and I train.
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The evil of it is that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller’s cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushing of the larger worlds, and cannot see them as they circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.
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I planted an orchard when I was 13. The impulse came from wanting to grow my own apples. That and the nursery catalog showed an apple tree with a beautiful girl standing under the fruit. Whether the flavor or the picture that did it, I've been hooked since.
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I take pride in the fact that a lot of little kids dig what I do.
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Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.
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I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.
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Georgia was a great place to live, but I wanted to get out because I knew the opportunities for what I was doing - stand-up comedy and eventually acting - were in Los Angeles.
