Kevin Young Quotes
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Not everybody fantasizes about robbing a bank, but I think most people have that fantasy of being in a high speed chase.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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I hate going to bed. I read scripts, clean, listen to the radio - I've fallen asleep to 'This American Life' more times than I can count!
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Music has always been really important to me.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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And so, in case we have contingencies and things that we cannot accomplish within the duration of the space walk, we have a buffer, I mean, in order to be able to complete the... what we want to accomplish.
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You can always change your plan, but only if you have one..'
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A weak invention of the enemy.
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There are two great fundamental problems common to all thought: (i) the problem of world- and life-affirmation and world- and life-negation, and (2) the problem of ethics and the relations between ethics and these two forms of man's spiritual attitude to Being.
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You have to stay focused and be mentally tough. That's what I've really learned: every day is a grind, and you have to go hard.
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I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.
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Singing was the big focus and outlet for me.
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I’ve always been very timid and still a very timid person.
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To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.
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'There's no way you're going to get a quote from us to use on your book cover.' - Metropolitan Police Spokesperson
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If I hadn't turned out to be a filmmaker, I would have been a musician.
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The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.
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Poems evolve. I don't feel like I choose them; they just come to me.
