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Prison Quotes
Most Famous Prison Quotes of All Time!
Actors who spend time on set discussing scenes with the cast often pause to imagine the harsher reality an actual inmate would face beyond a short visit. Convincing audiences that an impossible escape feels plausible takes real skill, a challenge our Being quotes touch on.
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- Paranoia
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
- Eye
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
- People
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
- Past
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The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.
- Grateful
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
- Congress
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I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
- Frustrations
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One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.
- Crime
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I'm not excusing crime or those who bring poison into the community, but I do want brothers and sisters in prison to know someone cares.
- People
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People always think about what prison is. What prison really is - it's not a physical challenge, it's mental.
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