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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I loved Michael Jackson and Madonna. I styled my hair like Whitney Houston.
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There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.
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A mind truly cultivated never feels that the intellectual process is complete until it can reproduce in some media the thing which it has absorbed.
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Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.
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Keep your head up and smile, because someone somewhere wants to see you fail.
