Kendrick Lamar Quotes
My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.
Quotes to Explore
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Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.
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I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
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We can open our hearts to God, but only with Divine help.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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Television is great but for me, as a performer, nothing compares to a live theatre show.
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In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.
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My passion is bringing storylines around and constructing a full body of work rather than just a 16-bar verse.
