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Drake Quotes

When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.

Drake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: October 24, 1986

Topics

Live Music Writing Thinking Lose

After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.

Jesmyn Ward

Community Writing Political Enough

I'm pretty much honest to a fault. It's my best and my worst quality.

Jennifer Westfeldt

Best Quality Worst Fault Pretty

Guilt is an emotion that is never very far away from Rick Grimes. He's a man that shoulders the responsibility, and it's one of the forces that keeps pushing him on.

Andrew Lincoln

Responsibility Man Guilt Far Away

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors at my high school that I really got my roots in being a black American, which is a distinctly different identity and experience.

Amanda Seales

Mother Experience School Identity

It's a journalist's job to be a witness to history. We're not there to worry about ourselves. We're there to try and get as near as we can, in an imperfect world, to the truth and get the truth out.

Robert Fisk

Truth History Job World Worry Try

Football develops, it becomes quicker, players develop as athletes.

Ruud Gullit

Football Players Develop Quicker

I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters.

Roy Thomson

Mind Anything Like

I don't really like to put stuff in a box as far as genre-specific.

Chord Overstreet

Box Far Like Stuff Really Put

Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, external demands and pressures. At some point, of course, you've got to push through it all if you're to write, and if you don't, or can't, you're sunk.

Claire Messud

Confidence Push You Write Point Got

We are a diverse people, man.

Corey Hawkins

Man People Diverse

From my first year on the faculty, there was always so much more I wanted to impart to the students. I decided that, rather than waste the last day of class summarizing the semester, I'd spend my time talking about what I'd learned in life that was useful.

Clayton M. Christensen

Life Time Day Talking Year Class

My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

Brian Posehn

Funny Me Think Want Talk Pretty