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Justin Simien Quotes

You know what, man, that's part and parcel of being a black person in this country: everything's harder. It just is.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: May 7, 1983

Topics

Man Black You Country Person Know

When I'm working on comics, I have to give myself a million deadlines, or I'd never get anything done. Comics are just so hard to make - I find it very difficult to motivate myself.

Myself Find Done Never Difficult

The key here is that we're not going to beat them on commercials: They're always going to have more money than us. So what we have to try to do throughout is just ask people to make sure they vote.

Money People Key Vote Try More

My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them again. I think it is subversive to embrace emotional optimism, because it goes against the grain.

Optimism Think Stand Early Dark

Life would certainly be easier if we all came equipped with our own personal FAQ lists. When we meet someone, we could pass them a business card with the list on the back, and then step back and let them read before we tried to talk.

Life Business Step Someone Back Own

Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

Stellan Skarsgard

Acting Out Head Something Going

If I had to define 'sexy' now, as Disney as it sounds, I would have to say it's about complete and utter confidence.

Solange Knowles

Confidence Sexy Now Say Define

My mother was a great typist. She said she loved to type because it gave her time to think. She was a secretary for an insurance company. She was a poor girl; she'd grown up in an orphanage, and she went to a business college - and then worked to put her brothers through school.

Mother Business Girl Great Time

If you earned money listening to music, I'd be a millionaire.

Michael Kiwanuka

Music Money Listening You Earned

Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Heart Find Will Whatever Own Us

I would think a sense of the absurd is more important for a political cartoonist, because that could define things like a sense of hypocrisy or a sense of the things one has to be skeptical about.

Jonathan Shapiro

Think Political Hypocrisy Important

When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.

Dolores O'Riordan

Feel You Too Much Stage Going Get

Good enough never is.

Good Enough Never

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