"I think you gotta always do things that keep you excited in an [rap music] industry that's so bullshit. When you know that you have so much energy and so much to give, it would be a shame if the facilitators of that aren't enthusiastic about you doing it, because you've been doing it for so long. So you just gotta figure out ways in this insane business to keep it fresh."

-- Nas

#Rap Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Through books you can start today where the great thinkers of yesterday left off, because books have immortalized man's knowledge. Thinkers, dead a thousand years, are as alive in their books today as when they walked the earth.”
“My mother converted when I was 16. She was the driving force behind religion in our family. So, I'm sure I was heavily influenced by that. But, I also was, and still am, convinced by the Catholic churches historical claims to represent the continuity with the early Church that other forms of Western Christianity lack.”
“I have to paint fast on television because of the limited time, but I don't want people to see what I'm showing them as work, something to worry and fret over. This is supposed to be fun.”
“She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. â€œWhat if it means something?â€ She asks. â€œWhat if it does?â€ â€œPromise me it wonâ€™t mean anything.â€ I lean my head back on the couch. â€œIt wonâ€™t mean anythinâ€™.â€ Arenâ€™t I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules? â€œAnd no tongue,â€ she adds. â€œMi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee thereâ€™s gonna be tongue.”
“A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.”
“The worst of guardians is a cruel ruler. Beware of becoming one of them.”
“When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.”
“I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet.”

Source : "Andrew Wylie: 'I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2010.

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