Burnell Taylor Quotes
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
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I didn't want the public in my personal life at all - I thought that people might perceive me as too normal, and I'd lose that larger-than-life rock star persona. You've got to protect that!
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Like many moms in this country, I work to provide my child the best life she can have. It's tough. It's hard to take care of a sick baby all night, wake up tired, and have to go to work when all I want to do is spend time holding her.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.
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I think we need to be sexy and kind of mysterious and still pretty and beautiful. I like to hear that when a man sings. I don't really want to hear about taking my clothes off.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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There's just no telling what I'll do. But I can say for certain I will continue to play, record, and put out music.
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In your teens, you get the physical puberty, and between 28 and 32, mental puberty. It does make you feel differently.
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Although both of us were raised on Oahu, in Honolulu, my mother has always had fond memories of Maui; this was, after all, where she and my father, then penniless yet oddly optimistic newlyweds, honeymooned in 1969.
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I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.
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They never noticed that he was in fact what they only pretended to be.
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I have long believed that it is only right and appropriate that before one sleeps with someone, one should be able – if called upon to do so – to make them a proper omelet in the morning. Surely that kind of civility and selflessness would be both good manners and good for the world.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.
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Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us - is rewritten - we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.
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I grew up as a discriminated minority in a dictatorship, so obviously the issue of human rights is a matter of concern for me.
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Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.
