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7898 Musician Quotes

My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Collar Brother Came Dude
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

About Anyone Because Big
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.

Album Every Get I Can
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Angeles Aunt Father Grade
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I believe that anyone can become better, if you put in the effort.

Anyone Become Believe Better
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Change Doing Just Life
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.

Baltimore Boy East Expect
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I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

After Anyone Considered Done
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.

About Fans Get Just
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The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.
Animal Because Everyone Great
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.

Art Art Form Because Been
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It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it!'

All Day Back Because Business
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If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Bottle Go Gonna Jail
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

Ceremonies Control Crowd Master
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I'm an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I'm not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it's just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I'm still on it and I won't stand still.

Ambitious Anyone Arrogant Competition
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I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

About Beat Better Could
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I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.

About Against Dreams Everything
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.

Always Been Just Making
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A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.

Different Different Ways Emcee Good
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Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.

Acting Creativity Music Same
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Music is a big part of my life. I listen to different genres, and I choose the music that will inspire the next part of my story.

Big BigPart Choose Different
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I think when people say 'real hip-hop,' they want it more buried in the streets. They want it more connected to the streets and the grime and the roughness of the streets. They don't want the fluff.

Buried Connected Hip Hop I Think
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The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

Album Arm Band Culture
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.

Bit Feminism I Think Little
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

Again Come Film Good
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.

Always Black Change Everything
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I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

Effort Keep Make Possibly
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Not obsessed with particularly Nike, but sneakers in general. I love them.

General I Love Love Nike
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I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

Because Call Circus Go
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I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.

About Across America Behind
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.

Headline Looking Most Shock
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

Apology Body Care Characters
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I think, people look at me, and they say, 'You were very aggressive,' I say, 'Yeah,' you know, and I've made a better life for myself, for my son, so I should reflect that with my music now. I shouldn't still be rhyming like that; that would be me lying.

Aggressive Better Better Life I Think
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.

Argument Big Character Director
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You know, film is the ultimate goal in an actor's career. I mean, I still love TV. I have my feet firmly stamped in it. But my opportunities have been bigger and better.

Actor Been Better Bigger
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.

Being Cool Get Happy
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
Countries Knows No-One Some
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

Actually Criminal How Ignored
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I knew that if I wanted to be all I could be, I would have to go to the U.S. It took three years to get the accent right.

Accent Could Get Go
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
African Hold Our Shape
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Bad Never School Bookworm
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The less I talk about being black, the better.

About Being Better Black
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I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

About Act Actor Because
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.

Actor Been Between Black
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Twenty or 30 years from now, I'm going to be on a beach in Jamaica.

Beach Going Jamaica Now
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The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.

About American Bad Bad Guys
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The long and short of it is that I am now in a position in England to green light movies, and that's really excellent - not high-budget movies, but movies none the less.

Am England Excellent Green
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It could be Grammy night, Oscar night, whatever - I don't feel the pressure to be there.

Could Feel Grammy Night
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

Mine Networking Personalities Some
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

Bike Bikes Days End
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