"I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and I really feel like it prepared me to be a storyteller - to make up stories and pretend to be every hero from every movie and TV show as a kid. So it was a natural progression."

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Source : "Oscars So White? Black Panther to the Rescue". Interview with Brandon E. Patterson, www.motherjones.com. February 6, 2016.

Joe Robert Cole

#Growing Up Quotes #Children Quotes #Hero Quotes

“If we only look within, we will see he Light as if we were seeing our own image in a mirror. (122)”
“In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.”
“Why do people want to pretend that death is sleep? It isn't. It isn't.”
“From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.”

Source : "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 127, 200.
“I am very much a scientist, and so I naturally have thought about religion also through the eyes of a scientist. When I do that, I see religion not denominationally, but in a more, let us say, deistic sense. I have been influence in my thinking by the writing of Einstein who has made remarks to the effect that when he contemplated the world he sensed an underlying Force much greater than any human force. I feel very much the same. There is a sense of awe, a sense of reverence, and a sense of great mystery.”
“I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.”
“I remember after 9/11, I started - I was working quite a bit in Vancouver. And then I realized I would go to catch my flight, and it would take me like 20 minutes to get cleared to fly, like, every time. I'm like, what is going on?”
“If you want to be happy in life, keep all of your commitments and don't expect other people to keep any of theirs.”

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