Keri Hilson Quotes
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
Quotes to Explore
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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Look. Art knows no prejudice, art knows no boundaries, art doesn't really have judgement in it's purest form. So just go, just go.
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I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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I, personally, do not consider myself to be some kind of Holy Mary of feminism.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.
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One thing that I think works in 'Casablanca' and which I've lectured a lot about - in terms of what I've been trying to achieve as a designer - is the film's creation of its own form of reality.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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I used to go missing a lot... Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.
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The experiences of the years...have brought the country, particularly its young people, to a mood of depression, disillusion, and withdrawal from the effort to affect the world.
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When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
