Keith Matthew Thornton (Kool Keith) Quotes

As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

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• You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Good
  • Real
  • Learn

• I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Friends
  • Like
  • Kitchen

• I don't have a steady relationship. That's something that women in politics deal with. For some reason, men in politics seem to have a larger charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Men
  • Women
  • Relationship

• I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Success
  • Lucky
  • Deserve

• Unjust Cause: This art is worth more than ten thousand staters, that one should choose the worse cause, and nevertheless be victorious. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
  • Art

• My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Life
  • Trouble
  • Owe

• Radio was my life growing up. Then, I started in our family band with my uncle, my father, my aunt and my little brother. We would go to The Chicken Box and all the bars and play.

  

  Meghan Trainor
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• We were supposed to get it the first of December.

  

  Sam Reed
  • First
  • Supposed
  • December

• Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?

  

  L.A. Weatherly
  • Girl
  • Picture
  • Right

• Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Hope
  • Game
  • Winners

• I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • God
  • Existence
  • Made

• Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• One of the things that sparked my interest in this is the case of Emmanuel Constant, who started a militia called FRAPH that was backed by the CIA. FRAPH killed thousands of Haitians in the early 1990s. Now while Constant is living comfortably in Queens, other Haitians are being deported. I wanted to see how those who have been bruised by people like that deal with coming face to face with their torturers.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Interest
  • Queens

• But for real, for me, I feel like with the red lipstick thing it all depends on the pair of complexion. I'm just being for real. You have to be fair skinned to get away with that.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Real
  • Red
  • Lipstick

• I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • People
  • Children
  • Help

• I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Hope
  • Way
  • Others

• Everything felt more personal this time. I go back to songs we've done in the past and there's just more maturity, depth, intelligence on these. They just feel more grown-up.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Time
  • Done

• Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Conversation
  • Personal

• And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Roses
  • Posies

• As I get older, I 've shied away from a lot of convention. I've just been making my records.

  

  Keith Matthew Thornton
  • Records
  • Conventions