Joyner Lucas Quotes

I began seeing certain things happen in my life and other people's lives and getting inspired by it and writing about it. And that's where you get 'Happy Birthday' from and 'Ross Capicchioni' from or you even get 'I'm Sorry' from.

Joyner Lucas

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 17, 1988

Topics

LifeBirthdayHappyPeopleWriting

I always do a lot of work around characters to make them real people because, oftentimes, they really are a sliver of a person. Even with truly wonderful writers, women characters are there to emote, and they're often incredibly chaste or worthy. Or they're a 'different type of woman', which is the worst.

Andrea Riseborough

WorkWomenWomanPeoplePersonReal

When I started Participant, I felt that the movie business was ripe for a company that dealt with big issues in a systemic way. I was a little surprised that nobody had done it before. But to most people, entertainment is escapism.

Jeffrey Skoll

BusinessPeopleNobodyDoneWayBig

Why aren't there enough black cops out there? We need black cops to come in and educate some of the white cops who have issues.

Michael Ealy

BlackEnoughWhiteWhyNeedOut

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

Tom Rachman

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As a producer, I probably am a little stronger than most, since I was a director originally.

Roger Corman

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I love my kids; I'm very close to all three of them.

Mike Huckabee

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I never understood why women wanted equality in the workplace when in fact, that would be selling them short.

Jay Samit

WomenEqualityShortSellingWhy

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

Josh Homme

PeopleBreakfastTalkingYouKind

I don't 'handle' people. It's so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It's very easy to say whatever's going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It's difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

Jon Favreau

JobPeopleEasyYouSayWant

About six months after I moved to New York City, I was literally down to my last twenty dollars when a friend of mine from college got me a job at an Upper East side gym. I ran the cafe, and I was the janitor. It was an unfortunate combination of duties, to say the least.

Donna Lynne Champlin

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At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

Brett Hoebel

GoalsHappyPeopleSexyBetterLose

I don't know what it is in me that refuses to quit, but I think it's kind of like, dare to dream.

Brett Young

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