Sarah Kay Quotes
Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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If I stayed in London, I probably would have gotten more work. I've never wanted to be thought of as an 'It' girl, someone who rides on the coattails of my mother.
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You don't make peace with friends. You make it with very unsavory enemies.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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On the taxing of banks, we have to find the level at which they squeal but still pay and open up the next day.
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When I look at my streams on Spotify, and I just see it's hundreds of millions of streams, I think, 'Wow, that's amazing.' But you don't really get it. Once you see people in front of you singing along to your songs, it's real.
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I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.
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Fits did not go over well in my house. There was a lot of discipline and obedience and you had to be very ladylike. Ladies didn't curse and I still don't curse in front of my parents.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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It's all matchups, and I knew that I matched up well against 'Rumble' Johnson.
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When you're picking a basketball team, you'll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you're playing the odds.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
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I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.
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Americans don't want leadership. They want alchemy.
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I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough.
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I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.
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I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.
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Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why I admire a green granite, female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
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Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.
