Sean Paul Quotes
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
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My mom teaches sixth grade and also taught first grade at one point. She's into dressing up and costumes and designing her own curriculum that way. She stayed home for about eight years with me and my sister when we were young before going back to teaching, so we had a lot of time with her. She taught us to read really early.
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.
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I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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I know how to fake someone out, if they break into my house, into thinking there are other people there.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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I'm very much over my hair. If it was up to me I'd have cut it a long time ago.
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The future is keeping you out of the present time.
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The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last election and realize that a third of the gay movement voted Republican.
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Don't give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don't usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.
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Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
