Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it.
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I am a newspaper columnist and a professional screenwriter, but my real love is the novel for all the room it has for characters to come alive and breathe and face their challenges.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Allu Arjun is one of the most stylish actors. We should take care of our looks when acting with him because he wears the best of costumes, and if we don't take care, we would look like a housemaid beside him.
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Before I had my child, I thought I knew all the boundaries of myself, that I understood the limits of my heart. It's extraordinary to have all those limits thrown out, to realize your love is inexhaustible.
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PG-13 horror, I just don't watch that.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
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In our view, successful reform is not an event. It is a sustainable process that will build on its own successes - a virtuous cycle of change.
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Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it's gonna be okay and you don't forget your lines and those cameras.
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Fixing a broken immigration system. Protecting our kids from gun violence. Equal pay for equal work, paid leave, raising the minimum wage. All these things still matter to hardworking families; they are still the right thing to do; and I will not let up until they get done.
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And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation.
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I learned how to play mandolin for 'A Mighty Wind!'
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I want to be a professional wakeboarder.
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I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
