Kevin Chapman Quotes
I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.
Quotes to Explore
-
Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
-
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
-
Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
-
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
-
I have a classic taste with a twist, because classic never goes away.
-
I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.
-
I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
-
If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
-
Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.
-
I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.
-
Politics is not an exact science.
-
I don't think young men or women should feel pressured into marriage. You shouldn't marry anyone, in my opinion, who you have to try hard for.
-
Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
-
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
-
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
-
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
-
I have to trust what I do and then do it.
-
There's a really easy way of just kind of wearing make-up but looking like there's nothing on your face... I'm still not very good at it, and I'm learning slowly.
-
Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
-
I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
-
Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.
-
I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
-
Great doubt will eventually lead to great awakening.
-
I did a film called 'Black Dynamite' that was very, very funny. That seems to be a film that's kind of a cult classic.
