Keith Stanfield Quotes
I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
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Only 10 percent of the people in the U.S. like dry wines. You shouldn't get down on people just because they like a little sugar.
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
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Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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When I started, department stores were either very fashion, or very tailored, so the two never mixed. I mixed it, and they said you're too tailored for fashion and too fashion for tailoring. So I had to move the market. So that's what I did.
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I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
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Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together - Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector - to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
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All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
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Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.
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I get recognized all the time, but not as Haley Bennett.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless is important to have and dreadful not to have.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind.
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One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page.
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My philosophy is that we should ask the most important question that's capable of being solved.
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Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.
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With screenplays, it's all about being as concise as possible. If you have a scene that's set in a bar, you just have to write, 'Interior: Bar.'
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Lightnin Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.
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I've always been super expressive, and I've always liked to express myself any way I can.
