- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Saying Quotes
The gap between what's said and what's meant.
This set focuses on the friction around saying things: doubts other people voice about an unusual project, the strangeness of writing lyrics meant for someone else's voice, and family conflicts that get said and later forgiven. It pairs well with our Know quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always cutting dialogue out when we were rehearsing, and when I produced movies, too. I felt that people don't say things in life - they act, they do things. I always wanted my characters doing, rather than saying what they were doing - which was redundant.
- Nov 07, 2020
Many times I have written something, and after it was published, I understood what I was saying.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been saying to myself for a good many years that I was really a writer and that I was in advertising temporarily.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.
- Some
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to worry about the critics until some of my peers start saying I'm a softie.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not saying I'm even half as talented or a quarter as talented as any of the people I'm inspired by, but if I hear a beat Busta Rhymes would absolutely kill, I'll use my voice to do a flow similar to his.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have no schooling in any normal sense but have learned from the best as far as just doing things. I learned filmmaking from loving movies and then just saying, 'OK, let's do it.'
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, 'Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?' I was like, 'I'd rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.' I always felt like an artist as well.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to appeal to everyone. Because I'm not saying I'm the best, but we the best.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once I began college, I was committed to writing, which I think is different from saying I wanted to become a writer. I knew I would always write; I just wasn't always sure how I would go about doing so.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020