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Justin Simien Quotes

Hollywood is a world where the only thing that gets green-lit is something that made money the last year.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Money World Year Hollywood Something

I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.

Opportunity Great Gift Language

We weren't radical chic. Jane Fonda embarrassed me. We belonged to no political parties. Basically, we were vaudevillians.

Me Political Embarrassed Radical

Acting was never my first choice as a profession, but I came to terms with it when I decided I better buckle down and be the best I can be at it.

Best Better Choice Acting Down

Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible to get in. But Hunter sent me a practice exam, and I studied what I needed to know to pass the exam.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Music School Practice Me Think Know

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Birth Decline Languages Had

I fail to understand how you can justify a poll tax on the entire population, yet exclude a significant proportion of that population from programmes that this tax is paying for.

Jonathan Dimbleby

You Tax Understand Fail Population

For as long as I can remember, my mother went to church every single Sunday. She was born and raised in Romania as a person with limited means, and faith was something she could rely on - something that was free.

Dominique Moceanu

Mother Faith Free Church Remember

I'm not really into the fashion thing.

Fashion Really Thing

I think that it's important to make criticisms of the government as a whole and criticisms of the policies, but to do so in a way that you can invite the individuals who maybe were on the opposition before, or who voted for somebody whom you are in disagreement with... that you open the door for a conversation with those people.

Brandon Victor Dixon

Government People Door Think You

Theater is an engagement between the actor and the audience. Film is a different sort of medium. It's not immediate, but in some ways it's more involving.

Pauline Collins

Actor More Audience Film Different

I played baseball my entire life, up through college and everything, so working out and being physically active was always a huge part of my life. I'll spend at least a couple of hours in the gym a day.

Life Day Baseball College My Life

It's important not to lay in a bubble bath drinking champagne. It's important to take part in what life's all about.

Life Bath Important Bubble Champagne

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