Kelela Mizanekristos (Kelela) Quotes
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research.
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I love Jared Hess' movies. He's such a weirdo and such a nice, funny guy.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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I like to paint, I'm absolutely no good at it, but I'm so comfortable with that because it's good for me to have something to fail at.
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I would love to do more work in the States, but I like working at home in the U.K., so to work here and there would be the plan.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I don't want to be on the road all my life.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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Fashion nowadays is all about product - bags and shoes - and you're kind of a product yourself, aren't you?
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I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
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By definition, a hearing is an inquiry into many sides of an issue with testimony from various points of views. But mark this: The Republicans did not have a single woman to testify in support of the contraception mandate. That is not a hearing; that is a sham.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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It is much easier to try one's hand at many things than to concentrate one's powers on one thing.
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
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One of the paramount reasons for staying attractive is so you can have somebody to go to bed with.
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If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
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I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician.
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I'm quite scrutinous when it comes to who I put myself in the room with.
