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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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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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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I grew up going to a real small missionary baptist church. We would sing a lot of the old standards... the hymns and everything. Those songs are still my favorite and are pretty timeless.
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It may be that the requirement of a preliminary approval by the Grand Jury, of all accusations of a serious nature, justified the boast that a man was presumed to be innocent until he was 'found' guilty; but that presumption certainly ceased to have practical application, so soon as the Grand Jury had returned a 'true bill'.
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I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy life - watch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
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It belongs among the refinements of totalitarian government in our century that they don't permit their opponents to die a great, dramatic martyr's death for their convictions.
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I've always been in love with Land Rovers and Range Rovers. I own one and was able to make it a little more exclusive.
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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.
