Keri Hilson Quotes
When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
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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 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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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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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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Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is under the impression that the direction hills go is down. Sledding is done down from street level into creek beds and road cuts.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
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There is a tradition in America of people in business not only commenting on the way the government is being run but doing something about it if they don't like it. In fact, they don't just rail about it: they go into government, like some of my ex-colleagues.
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There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes!
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The slogan 'Never Again!' that emerged after the Holocaust implies that the Holocaust has a universal moral meaning, which, if properly learned, can provide at least a theoretical prophylactic against its repetition against anyone.
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It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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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.
