Stormzy (Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo) Quotes
It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
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Everyone is doing forensics.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second. And then I started editing my own videos when I was 17, so it's a process I've been doing since I was younger.
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I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
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I was doing community theater since I was about nine.
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Personally, the first year when I started making enough money just from acting - by that, I mean not doing anything else but acting - was around 2003.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.
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Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.
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My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
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One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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If any ideology is so serious that you can't have fun while you're doing it, it's probably too serious.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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So much is asked of parents, and so little is given.
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My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.
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I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.
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I'm not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.
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It's not always about convincing your parents of what you want to do, but just saying, 'This is what I'm doing; this is what I love.'
