Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
'Take Me Apart' doesn't feel cohesive in a singular way but in a varied way. You can fixate on individual songs, and there are references from all over the place: Anita Baker to Bjork. I wanted to show all the facets of myself.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I'm a bit of a hothead in certain circumstances, but you've got to temper it because your fans are there, and they've paid good money to see a show.
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Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.
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Only in space did I realize how lucky I am to be Korean. Only in Korea could I have gone to space before turning 30 years old.
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As a small business owner myself, I talk to so many other business owners who delay seasonal hiring by waiting until the last minute to make their temporary hires.
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I am a Shawnee. My forefathers were warriors. Their son is a warrior. From them, I take my only existence.
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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
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It was an accident of circumstance that I never married.
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It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
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Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death.
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Up, and at my chamber all the morning and the office doing business, and also reading a little of L'escholle des filles, which is a mighty lewd book, but yet not amiss for a sober man once to read over to inform himself in the villainy of the world.
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With spots of sunny openings, and with nooksTo lie and read in, sloping into brooks.
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I feel as I always have, that the earth is the home and the only home of man, and I am convinced that whatever he is to get out of his existence he must get while he is here.
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Sophocles taught us that the greatest of all human laws is justice… and I think that is something we have to remember.
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I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do.
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No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.
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The ratings system is so bogus and people know it. Fewer and fewer people care. The ratings board has sort of exposed itself. But my problem is, as a parent, there's this area of film that my daughters want to see. They're not my kind of films, I don't want to go see them, but I really want to know whether my daughters can see them or not. The morality of what the ratings board is doing now escapes me. I don't get it.
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Women are tough campaigners. They certainly know how to withstand attacks. And I think we make a mistake if we say, as some do, that women should play by different rules, or that they are somehow especially vulnerable to the rules of politics. I don't think that's true.
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'Take Me Apart' doesn't feel cohesive in a singular way but in a varied way. You can fixate on individual songs, and there are references from all over the place: Anita Baker to Bjork. I wanted to show all the facets of myself.
