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K'naan Quotes

To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: somali
Birth: February 1, 1978

Topics

End Reach You Goal Way Mean

My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.

Life Father Small Uncle Old Out

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

Confidence Myself Little Actress Had

I don't believe in happy endings.

Jeanette Winterson

Happy Believe Endings

I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.

Live New York City Place New Take

While actors play with guns for make-believe, the guns themselves are by no means make-believe; they're real. Even when the actor is using blanks, there are all kinds of safety protocols to follow when shooting one at someone. Pulling the trigger is the easy part.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

Safety Someone Easy Play Actor Real

Bill de Blasio is a very good friend. I remember bringing up a whole caravan of cars to help volunteer on his Public Advocate race.

Good Friend Help Remember Race Up

I don't have a particular ambition in any medium. I just want to keep telling stories. If somebody pays me, also good.

Good Me Ambition Want Keep Just

I had a vague idea of the song's impact in the '60s, but that was tempered by the hate mail and threats I was receiving. It was only about ten years ago, when I finally put it back in my show because so many people were asking for it, that I understood 'Society's Child' real impact.

Hate Child People Song Society Back

I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

Experience Process Photography You

Before Charlottesville, it might have been easy to dismiss the plot of 'Mudbound' as no longer relevant. Now, I feel like audiences will be more receptive to the material - and to interrogating their personal histories after watching it.

Feel Easy Now Personal Will More

I could never leave Las Vegas. I can't really afford New York or Los Angeles. I love this town. We don't have that much. We have the Runnin' Rebels and boxer Floyd Mayweather. When Mayweather fights, it's good for the whole city. It's like the Super Bowl out here.

Love Good New York City Vegas New

I won the John Mackey Award, so I did something right.

Austin Seferian-Jenkins

Award Right Something Did Won John

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