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Mary Harris Jones Quotes

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Mary Harris Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: activist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1837 - November 30, 1930

Topics

Shoes Fight Me Wrong Where Against

One of the reasons I do like 'Cult' is that it plays along the same vibe as the movie 'Seven,' which I absolutely love. There was a period of cinema in the mid-'90s that I was a huge fan of, with 'Heat' and 'Seven' and the Tarantino era. If I've ever been fanatical, it was about those films, back in the day.

Love Day Back Cinema Heat Same

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

Funny Light I Am People Control You

Why am I a liberal? Because I don't forget that I'm an immigrant and that I'm a Hispanic and that I have a Latin accent when I speak English, and I want to defend those who get racially profiled by people who would discriminate against us?

People Speak Forget Want Why Defend

I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.

Think Say Fighter Master Different

I don't have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that's the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.

Education Men Me America Mortgage

My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today, dancers need to try as many companies as possible without having a drop-dead loyalty to me or anyone else. They like to have the leeway to go their own way.

Today Loyalty Me Go Way Possible

Playing is just about feeling. Playing isn't necessarily about misery. Playing isn't necessarily about happiness. But it's just about letting yourself feel all those things that you have already on the inside of you, but you're all the time trying to push them aside because they don't make for polite conversation or something.

Happiness Time Yourself Push You

My father brought me up to be a socialist.

Father Me Up Socialist Brought

There's always nerves when you're releasing something.

You Always Something Nerves

You can always keep learning with acting, because the school is life and yourself and your friends and your relationships. I'm fascinated by it! It's infinito!

Life Learning Yourself School Acting

Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

Cool Color Remember Down Sneakers

New links must be forged as old ones rust.

New Old Rust Must Forged Links

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