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The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.
Rodney Crowell
Time
Best
Good
Vision
Mediocrity
Best Time
Some
Finest
Fact
Had
Songs
Like
Terms
Wrote
Fallen
Were
Years
Getting
Canvas
Paint
When I was doing something on someone else's dime, I was inclined to try to anticipate what they wanted. I knew that wasn't what an artist was supposed to do. In funding my own music, I found my voice.
Rodney Crowell
Music
Try
Own
Else
Dime
Someone
Something
My Own
Voice
Knew
Supposed
Doing
Anticipate
Artist
Wanted
Inclined
Found
Funding
I'm under-appreciated, of course.
Rodney Crowell
Course
To be earning a living as an artist at any time, any place is kinda the ultimate gift that you can receive from the universe, and I'm very much aware of that. I get to do exactly what I want to do.
Rodney Crowell
Time
You
Gift
Living
Universe
Earning
Kinda
Exactly
Exactly What
Ultimate
Very
Get
Any
Artist
Want
Place
Much
Aware
Receive
I'm very grateful that I was given the ability to create.
Rodney Crowell
Grateful
Ability
Given
Very
Create
I think, back in the '80s when I was having hits all the time, I took it for granted.
Rodney Crowell
Time
Think
Took
Back
Having
Hits
Granted
My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.
Rodney Crowell
Education
Parents
Farm
Seventh
Kids
Were
Grade
Eighth
Eighth Grade
To me, Hank Williams is the first rock-and-roll star.
Rodney Crowell
Me
First
Williams
Hank
Hank Williams
Star
Collaboration is a vital part of my creative life. I've had success with Guy Clark and Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.
Rodney Crowell
Life
Success
Creative
Collaboration
Clark
Vital
Cash
Guy
Johnny
Johnny Cash
Had
Part
Creative Life
Innovation is a game of numbers. How do you get enough ideas into the pipeline?
Shari L. Ballard
You
Game
Innovation
Enough
Ideas
How
Pipeline
Get
Numbers
If you're going to turn on an innovation engine, a lot depends on whether managers listen for the brilliance in their employees' ideas that they can then help test, or whether they listen for what's wrong and why it won't work.
Shari L. Ballard
Work
You
Innovation
Employees
Wrong
Ideas
Test
Lot
Managers
Going
Listen
Depends
Whether
Turn
Turn-On
Then
Engine
Help
Why
Brilliance
I think that's the real work of leadership: figuring out where you really believe you have significant risk.
Shari L. Ballard
Work
Leadership
You
Believe
Think
Out
Significant
Risk
Real
Where
Real Work
Really
Figuring
Sleeping and water are lifesavers - that's true beauty right there.
Sofia Boutella
Water
Beauty
Sleeping
True
True Beauty
Right
When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was 'Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?' It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character.
Sofia Boutella
Music
Character
Relationship
You
Dancing
Find
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Physicality
Piece
Am
Doing
Question
Very
Close
Close Relationship
Same
Movement
Story
Whether
Body
Acting
Your
Your Body
Why
I wanted a choker, and couldn't find one I liked, so I thought, 'I'll just make it.'
Sofia Boutella
Thought
Find
Liked
Make
Just
Wanted
I make body chains that come from the neck, cross in the middle of your chest, then go around your waist. I mix them with feathers for a gypsy, bohemian style.
Sofia Boutella
Feathers
Style
Cross
Gypsy
Come
Make
Around
Go
Mix
Waist
Chest
Middle
Them
Then
Body
Your
Bohemian
Chains
Neck
I truly believe the discipline I have honed as a dancer will bring me more opportunities as an actor.
Sofia Boutella
Me
Discipline
Opportunities
Will
Believe
Dancer
More
Truly
Actor
Bring
When I was a dancer, I was acting.
Sofia Boutella
Dancer
Acting
I'm not rebellious. I try to be rebellious, but I don't walk around being rebellious for no reason.
Sofia Boutella
Walk
Try
No Reason
Around
Being
Reason
Rebellious
I don't necessarily want to be defined as an action star. I love movies, and my movie culture, luckily because of my parents and my family, is quite obscure and independent.
Sofia Boutella
Love
Family
Culture
Parents
Action
Defined
Independent
Obscure
Because
Quite
Want
Movie
Movies
Luckily
Star
Necessarily
I'm a dancer. I used to dance. I'm not a stunt girl. I had to learn for 'Kingsman,' and I think the movie had an impact in that way where people saw me and thought I can do action. Which I can; I can learn.
Sofia Boutella
Me
People
Dance
Thought
Girl
Action
Think
Dancer
Saw
Way
Impact
Had
Stunt
Learn
Where
Movie
Which
Used
My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.
Sofia Boutella
Myself
Family
Me
Class
Took
Ballet
Encouraged
Artistic
Express
We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.
Takeoff
Knowledge
Game
Youth
Generation
Changing
Our
Give
Part
Legacy
Want
Younger
Younger Generation
Stand
You gotta give back - it's only right to give back to the people who need it and are less fortunate.
Takeoff
You
People
Back
Give
Only
Gotta
Fortunate
Less
Who
Right
Need
Migos ain't stopping. We're gonna keep getting better and better.
Takeoff
Better
Getting
Getting Better
Stopping
Gonna
Keep
We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.
Takeoff
Game
Every
Out
Put
Like
Owned
Album
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