"We know violence isn’t the answer. When we take up our arms, we’re talking about our vote."
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"You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up."
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"I love talking to all the kids, and have enjoyed the enthusiasm and response from their teachers as well."
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"The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid."
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"I like sincerely talking about market analysis and how marketing is ahead of design and design needs to catch up to fulfill the promise of the marketing."
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"When I'm performing, I hope my research and my experience with those things I'm talking about rings true."
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"And what happens a lot of times when - let's just speak specifically white and black - when white or black people feel misunderstood when it comes to talking about race, they immediately get defensive."
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"Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from."
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"It's certainly a lot more difficult to get a project made if you're talking about something progressive. That's just the nature of the industry."
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"I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about."
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"I hang out with people who are amazing parents and really value a rich living. I'm not talking about monetarily. I'm talking spiritually and mentally, and we help make sure that each one is on their game for their spouses."
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"As mayor of Milwaukee, I've had many developers come and many businesses come and have asked for financial assistance from the city, and my questions have always been: how many jobs are we talking about and are these family-supporting jobs."
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"I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something."
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"Once, in a spasm of sappiness, you asked Q-Jo if she thought your dreams would ever come true. 'You aren't talking about dreams,' she corrected you, 'you're referring to your pathetic bourgeoisie ambitions. Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true."
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"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished."
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"I feel like the older I get, the truer it feels that I'm only going have an investment in a poem if it allows or forces me to bring something that's supremely me onto the page. I used to think that the speaker of a poem was talking to someone else, to some ideal reader or listener, but now I think that speakers - poets - are talking to themselves. The poem allows you to pose questions that you have you ask of yourself knowing that they are unanswerable."
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"I never questioned I would have any trouble doing what I wanted to do. I'm not talking about getting to a certain position - or to success. It was just that I knew I wanted to act, and that I would make my living that way. Having the unconditional support of your parents is really freeing."
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"How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all."
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"I have great players around me. I have a great coach talking to me all the time, constantly teaching me. I feel reborn, like I'm learning every day. When I show up, I'm happy."
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"I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose."
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