Khoudia Diop Quotes
I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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You know, the Brits had a way of - running an empire. And I don't think America is comfortable with an empire.
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The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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As I get older, the present and the past shift and become the past and the future... A lot of it is a new awareness of time and life and the wheel of fortune crushing you and lifting you and crushing you and lifting you.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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It seemed like most of the memories faded before they had time to form. And after a while, my life with my father seemed like a familiar story or a distant dream.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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I love trying to give some flesh to rather naked bones sometimes. I've always felt it my duty and to try and bring on the character's off-stage life, what happened that is not revealed.
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It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.
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I was so ashamed of it that I would spend hours in the shower crying and trying to wash my skin off.
