Keith Stanfield Quotes
Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.
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I had 45 amateur fights, and I was able to win two national titles in those three years as an amateur.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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You can't play it safe if you want to get ahead.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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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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You're going to change as you grow older, and that messes up a lot of relationships.
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If you really want to torture me, sit me in a room strapped to a chair and put Mariah Carey's records on.
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If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not the moments when people are yelling at each other. They're the moments when someone says something that is very poignant, but oftentimes not loud.
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I studied at a grammar school and later at the University of Vienna in the Faculty of Medicine.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.
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I'm always trying to push for women's rights.
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I've just gained so much confidence in the booth since the 'Sit Still Look Pretty' era. I'm working with really talented producers and songwriters who bring out the best in me.
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I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.
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Of course I have other passions and other interests, but soccer's always my priority.
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I'm a rapper and, obviously, hip hop rap is my main thing. But I also like to dive into different genres and kind of be a bit more experimental and open myself up a bit, whether that's taking influence from jazz or soul or electronic.
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Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions.
