Santiago Leyva (Fashawn) Quotes
I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I'm a dork!
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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If I could believe that God was not angry with me, I would stand on my head for joy.
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I consider myself a novice film actor.
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I think women are taking charge of the origins of a production, which is the most important part. Because you can't be a victim of whatever people ask you to do.
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When you have such a huge past, a big background as we have, you can play off that - a lot of people do. But we felt we wouldn't have a legitimate future unless we put something new together.
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Nowhere, absolutely nowhere, has there ever been a hint, not even a whisper, that a Black person was involved in the assassination of the president. But that's the kind of thing you have in this movie.
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I don't think my music really provokes that kind of energy that makes people want to grab AKs and rally through the streets. I don't think my music is gangsta in that sense.
