Stormzy (Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo) Quotes
Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.
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There are a lot of bad people out there.
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I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I disagree. You need to write a lot in order to figure out what's good and what's crap.
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Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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I could not disobey the will of the Catalan parliament.
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I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.
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You have an audience that is fairly well grounded in the real world. You serve them and yourself best by making everything as real as possible.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of my own apartment.
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Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
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I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'
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I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.
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I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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There's not a formula that I'm following; it's just how I feel at the time. For instance, I did a very experimental film called 'Hardcore Henry,' and that was simply because I thought the filmmaker was very interesting and a risk taker. A film like that had never been made before, so I chose to do that at the time.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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We have to do more than keep media giants from growing larger; they're already too big. We need a new set of rules that will break these huge companies to pieces.
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If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.
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Grime is still quite new. You can't expect national radio and national media to get it straight away.
