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If a director brings a guy to their movie who does improv, they've got to let him do what he does - otherwise it's like bringing Michael Jordan to your basketball team and telling him to just pass the ball and don't shoot.
J. B. Smoove
Director
Basketball Team
Otherwise
Telling
Guy
He
Jordan
Like
Him
Ball
Does
Pass
Got
Michael
Michael Jordan
Improv
Shoot
Just
Movie
Your
Team
Who
Bringing
Brings
Basketball
Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
J. B. Smoove
Good
You
People
Losing
Down
Nuts
Gibson
Support
Supporting
Like
Know
Him
How
Gotta
Dude
Still
His
Any
Movies
Shut
I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
J. C. Chandor
Great
Me
History
Science
Photography
Theatre
School
Painting
Drama
Took
Saw
High
Classes
Some
High School
Something
Had
Highly
Like
Because
Got
Motivated
Math
Math And Science
Subjects
Grades
Decent
Arts
Really
English
I think my films kind of walk this line that I'm proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
J. C. Chandor
Youth
Walk
Think
Films
Kind
More
Feel
Like
Sort
Proud
Line
Were
Commercial
Which
Far
I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American.
J. C. Watts
You
Values
Our
Everything
Bit
Oklahoma
About
Except
Like
Call
Said
Up
Accurate
American
Lack
Just
Grew
Little
Little Bit
Ethos
American Values
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.
J. Carter Brown
Music
Visual
Visual Arts
Kindred
Spirits
Poetry
Like
Oddball
Arts
Found
I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
J. Christopher Burch
Creativity
Amazing
Value
Looking
Past
Believe
Think
Our
Dancing
Retail
Instance
Excitement
Environment
Like
Look
Wonder
Offering
Done
Stores
In The Past
Package
Newness
Them
Fun
Whole
I'm not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I'm doing. So if I'm playing basketball, if I'm taking the SATs, like, there's a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it's the same thing.
J. Cole
Best
Same Thing
Bad
Spirit
Taking
Like
Doing
Same
Behind
Want
Anything
Gonna
Production
Actually
Thing
Playing
Competitive
Basketball
Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.
J. Cole
Good
Day
Song
Writing
Good Day
Rapper
Sometimes
Will
Side
Please
Hook
Beat
Writing Process
Lights
Come
Like
Making
Verse
Up
Jump
Maybe
Just
Happens
Process
Producer
Start
I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all day long. I could make an album full of smash records that got pop appeal. But my heart is in hip-hop. My heart is in telling stories. And it's like therapy for me.
J. Cole
Day
Me
Heart
Long
Tools
Possess
All Day
Out
Telling
Records
Could
Songwriter
Smash
Like
Make
Got
Hip-Hop
Go
Just
Stories
Producer
Really
Pop
Full
Therapy
Appeal
Now
Album
My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
J. Cole
Buy
Mom
Family
Me
Girl
Long
Seven
Dream
Brother
Able
Driveway
Over
Like
Piece
Houses
Real
Friends
Maybe
Land
Grandmother
Whole
Street
Right
Here
Imagine
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
J. Cole
Seen
Write
Put
Like
Because
Fit
Different
Stories
Anywhere
Perspectives
Different Perspectives
Many
Why
Basically
I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.
J. Cole
Best
Later
Ways
Drawn
Eminem
Like
Became
Were
Huge
Different
Fan
Stories
Tupac
Storytellers
Realized
Different Ways
People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
J. Cole
Success
Time
Business
Eyes
People
Made
Long
Long Time
Think
Some
He
Like
Because
Around
Got
How
Am
Been
Trying
Jay
Jay-Z
Many
Albums
There's been people who've rapped and produced - like Kanye - but I don't feel like on the rapping side there's ever been a producer who can rap as good as I think I can rap.
J. Cole
Good
People
Think
Side
Rap
Rapping
Feel
Like
Been
Produced
Producer
Kanye
Who
Ever
Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
J. Cole
Sometimes
Try
Embarrassing
Like
Little
As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I'm successful, I never feel like I'm anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I'm never content.
J. Cole
Goals
Else
Further
Someone
More
Never
Feel
Like
Look
Equally
Content
Because
Still
Go
Goal
Get
Anywhere
Might
Much
Successful
Grow
Eventual
I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
J. Cole
Music
Benefits
Walk
Complaint
Kid
Hop
City
Small
Restrictive
Fact
Through
Part
Headphones
Like
Around
Go
Fame
Trains
Get
Same
Listen
Just
Manhattan
Used
Who
Comparison
Downtown
I knew that my dollhouse was a toy, but in a way, it seemed more like a portal to adulthood. I didn't play with it the way I might with my Barbie dream house. Instead, I furnished it. I kept it pristine. I decorated the house for each season. I had jack-o'-lanterns in the fall and a Christmas tree with working lights in the winter.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Christmas
Winter
Fall
Christmas Tree
Tree
Furnished
Way
Dream
Seemed
More
Had
Adulthood
Knew
Instead
Lights
Like
Toy
House
Pristine
Might
Barbie
Decorated
Working
Each
Season
Play
Kept
My relationship with the 'Baby-Sitters Club' series bordered on addiction, and my mom got me heavily into the Trixie Belden mysteries as well. Trixie Belden was like Nancy Drew, but without the boyfriends and cute outfits, which I think is the reason my mother preferred her.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Mom
Me
Relationship
Mother
Mysteries
Club
Cute
Think
Addiction
Outfits
Drew
Like
Nancy
Well
Without
Got
Boyfriend
Which
Preferred
Reason
Series
Her
Every St. Patrick's Day in my hometown is such a huge thing. You know, it was like Christmas, but in green.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Christmas
Day
You
Every
Like
Know
Huge
Green
Huge Thing
Hometown
Thing
When you write fiction, you're like a bird making a nest. You remember every little story ever told you. It's funny how things come back to you.
J. Courtney Sullivan
Funny
You
Remember
Bird
Every
Back
Nest
Write
Come
Like
How
Making
Fiction
Story
Little
Ever
Things
I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself.
J. D. Salinger
Myself
Publish
Write
Like
Intend
Necessarily
Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.
J. D. Vance
Dinner
Virginia
Dinner Table
Table
Guy
Like
Talks
Around
West
Trump
West Virginia
Sitting
Bar
Dad
As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.
J. D. Vance
Myself
Army
Culture
Heroes
Doubt
White
Military
Neighbours
Could
Had
Name
Like
George
Officer
American
Modern
Loved
Patton
Figure
Working-Class
Even
I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.
J. D. Vance
Government
Struggle
Living
Our
Our Lives
Those
Dreamed
About
Only
Could
Never
Like
Felt
Understand
Off
While
Why
Lives
Largesse
Enjoyed
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