Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I've been living. I've been doing the writing thing. I've been being the family man. I've been traveling the world. I been to, like, 18 cities last year. I've been getting my thoughts together, trying to figure out what's going on with hip-hop itself.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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My mother has always been open about all kinds of music and entertainment. She wanted us to see that it was not just country music and the Grand Ole Opry.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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A lot of things trigger my inspiration. It can be the most banal things.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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A lot of the problems in the mortgage world, people said, were because our competitors were evil. But a lot of it was a lack of technology - bad processes and systems.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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A lot of people tend to go into the music industry and be really - what do you call it? - oblivious to everything that comes with it.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
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Art is fluid, and it travels. You have to let music take you where it wants to take you. You can't necessarily be the controller.
