Lennie James Quotes

I became politicised in my mid teens, at the time of ska and 2 Tone and the Anti-Nazi League, when I'd get dressed up for a night out in my white socks and loafers, and the last thing I'd hear is, 'Have a good night - be careful of the police.'

Lennie James

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 11, 1965

Topics

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I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

Jill Scott

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Our minds are not our friends when they realize we have work to do - they're our enemies.

Melvin Van Peebles

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I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns.

John Jay Chapman

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If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.

Amy Poehler

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I am not a retailer - I have never run a store; I have never understood the full details of how you can make a consumer satisfied. To build a company, to do deals, to motivate people: this is what I am able to do.

Stefano Pessina

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You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As I've learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership; if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead.

Tom Ridge

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I go to mass every Sunday, which is a shock to everybody.

Roger Ailes

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I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be fair, the last there. Megan Smith left, Claire Hughes Johnson, vice presidents at Google left.

Mary Lou Jepsen

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When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.

Diego Luna

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If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

Drew Carey

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Ask any worker at Starbucks, Cosi, McDonald's or Walmart, 'How many jobs do you have?' and likely he or she will tell you: 'Two.' I know colleagues who've had breakfast at one store, and gone to lunch in another, only to find the same person waiting on them.

Donna Brazile

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I learned again that the mind-body-spirit connection has to be in balance.

Wynonna Judd

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