Rap for me is like making movies, telling stories, and getting the emotions of the songs through in just as deep a way.
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And all you other cats throwin' shots at Jigga, | You only get half a bar: fuck y'all niggaz.
JAY-Z I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
JAY-Z I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man!
JAY-Z She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING I like Jay Z, Journey, and Kings of Leon.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ I'm cool with Jay-Z. Jay-Z is genuinely my friend.
DRAKE I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-PAIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.
RITA ORA I have been a fan of Versace for so long, watching people like Biggie, Puff, Jay-Z.
FRENCH MONTANA The Fort Minor record is all about getting back to basics in Hip-Hop, both sonically and for me pers...
MIKE SHINODA The Fort Minor record is all about getting back to basics in Hip-Hop, both sonically and for me pers...
MIKE SHINODA Jay-Z and L.A. Reid are really backing me up right now,
CHRISTINA MILIAN Speaking out against rap music is useless, and it's futile. The reality is there's criticism...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Jay-Z called me onstage during my song that I produced for 'Watch the Throne?' That was surr...
HIT-BOY There's Jay-Z, who morphs a certain street hustler's cool and indifference into CEO extravag...
MICHAEL PATERNITI Telling the truth and making someone cry is just as bad as telling a lie and making someone smile!
UNKNOWN I'd like to collaborate with Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige.
ROBIN THICKE The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND Remember when Jay-Z wore a Che Guevara T-shirt? Nobody knew who Che was. Then Jay-Z wears it, and it...
LAMAR ODOM [Jay-Z, 29, is accused of attacking Lance] Un ... more than once in the back with a knife.
Q-TIP Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps...
ICE T I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to m...
DOROTHY ALLISON Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat differ...
ALICE MUNRO (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Jay Z and President Bush have a lot in common, that same brash confidence.
SAUL WILLIAMS Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable...
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON Life keeps throwing me stones.
And I keep finding the diamonds...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I didn't tell him that I'd put his awful stories in boxes and stacked them on a shelf at the back of...
LAUREN WOLK The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
SAM MENDES Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archety...
JON FAVREAU Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this; he been through the g...
MEEK MILL I listened to a lot of Jay-Z and Kanye coming up, which would be unexpected for a boy bander like me...
LIAM PAYNE I grew up listening to Jay-Z, and I think the first time I really became obsessed with learning and ...
EZRA KOENIG Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.
RICO LOVE Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.
KEVIN GATES To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake ...
JESSICA ENNIS What's important is that people realize that I can't be put into a box musically. I've s...
TREY SONGZ People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, '...
J. COLE Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.
FUTURE We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stori...
BRYANT GUMBEL You going to call me arrogant for believing in myself? Come on! It's a competitive sport. Rappin...
ASTRO When I went back to my old high school, all these kids looking at me like I'm the real big homie...
KENDRICK LAMAR The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action directo...
JOHN WOO I wanted re-introduce the art form by making an album that included many different variations of sto...
SLICK RICK It's irritating, because I would like to make movies that were as unrelenting and as explicit in the...
CLIVE BARKER Jay-Z is as politically correct as some of the politicians. He's safe. There's points when y...
CURTIS JACKSON Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
MAUREEN O'HARA Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.
MAUREEN O'HARA They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of meta...
JANE YOLEN There is no real way to prepare yourself for having a child other than just getting thrown in the de...
JASON DAY I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the ...
VIGGO MORTENSEN I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making ...
STEPHEN SONDHEIM Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. Sometimes, I'll be walking down the street, and people will be like, 'You're the guy from the antler...
PETE WENTZ Sometimes, I'll be walking down the street, and people will be like, 'You're the guy from the antler...
PETE WENTZ I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sa...
JACK KILMER Why you like photography so much? Because it's just the camera and me showing everyone else what we ...
LINDSEY KELK And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Making playlists can kill a whole afternoon for me. I like building very specific playlists for new ...
JONATHAN MABERRY Positive emotions like compassion and loving kindness engender in us a deep sense of peace and seren...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Jay Z is building a range of businesses just on the strength of his brand. Lady Gaga has formed real...
ANITA ELBERSE For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing...
TAYLOR SWIFT Storytellers, by the very act of telling, communicate a radical learning that changes lives and the ...
CHRIS CAVANAUGH Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thi...
DAVEED DIGGS Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and da...
JODIE FOSTER As a little kid in a sometimes hard place, I went to the movies as often as I could. Movies - making...
MIKE NICHOLS I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in ev...
ACTION BRONSON A lot of films made me love the movies, everything from Hitchcock to Godard. But the ones that reall...
PAUL HAGGIS Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end.
JENNIFER HARRISON I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composin...
JOHN FRANCIS I now possess the tools as a producer and a songwriter to really just go out and make smashes all da...
J. COLE My favorite artists are Kanye West, Jay Z, the Fugees, Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child.
BEBE REXHA No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.
J. COLE The stories of wine lords who trade wine on intimidation or food critics who trade free meals for re...
JOE BASTIANICH That's the way I feel, at least: like there's a real me and a reflection of me, and I have no way of...
LAUREN OLIVER He has a way of telling stories, one of the best I've ever heard.
LARRY CLARK There were movies that always made me want to be a director. You see brilliant scenes and the way th...
BRUCE BERESFORD I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth....
TRAVIS SCOTT Country music is all about telling stories, and we're just telling a little different one.
TAYLOR DYE When I'm not in the booth, I'm one of the most laid-back guys. But growing up, I liked DMX, ...
MEEK MILL It's funny, because I don't have a very addictive personality in any way except for things l...
MAE WHITMAN Life excites me. I'm not talking about appearing in movies or doing interviews, but just little, nor...
LIV TYLER I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me ...
JOHN CENA Rock and roll is one of the great American art forms, just like jazz, blues, and bluegrass. We love ...
TOM SMITH Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Sma...
STEVEN MAGEE I've sort of always been obsessed with telling stories and making things up.
CHRIS WOOD It has always been my dream to take my turn at the most respected concert hall in the world. As enor...
LEA SALONGA Dance and theatre afforded me the opportunity to discover my passion for acting, for telling stories...
KELSEY CHOW I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
WATKIN TUDOR JONES For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's lik...
CALLIE KHOURI I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and S...
VANILLA ICE It's like we want the audience to travel with us as we tell our stories. I think of it as a musical;...
JUANITA CRIDER It's been a year since I wrote and recorded 'Mr. A-Z,' so it's only natural that I'm already thinkin...
JASON MRAZ As far as rap, I was more of a Mobb Deep guy rather than a Tribe guy.
ACTION BRONSON Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ...
TED DEKKER This is me telling the truth. It just so happens to be a very explosive truth.
COREY CLARK For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing - stocks, financial speculation, real ...
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JAY Z May the best of your today, be the worst of your tommorrow.
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JAY-Z And all you other cats throwin' shots at Jigga, | You only get half a bar: fuck y'all niggaz.
JAY-Z I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!
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JAY-Z I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.
There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas
One da...
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JAY-Z He slid her a skeptical look. “What is that?”
She almost laughed at the suspicion in his fa...
Z. ROCKWARD No matter how advanced the technology, sometimes things just needed a good knock.
Z. ROCKWARD When no one need you to comeback home..
Keep strong...
Because they are still a home for you..
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JAY Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good ti...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
LAURA Z. HOBSON I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
LAURA Z. HOBSON The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.
J. Z. YOUNG One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually coun...
GAIL Z. MARTIN Getting to share the stories in my head with other people and have them enjoy those stories, and hav...
GAIL Z. MARTIN The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new...
GAIL Z. MARTIN I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the...
GAIL Z. MARTIN My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, du...
GAIL Z. MARTIN I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
GAIL Z. MARTIN I call myself, 'The Estee Lauder of the garden world.' I'm my own little conglomerate.
C. Z. GUEST The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. GUEST What I don't understand is these people who go on the street wearing riding clothes, and they ha...
C. Z. GUEST All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
C. Z. GUEST I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There's only so much you can wear.
C. Z. GUEST If God invented marathons to keep people from doing anything more stupid, the triathlon must have ta...
P. Z. PEARCE Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.
POPPY Z. BRITE When the great white silence comes and fills the boughs of the trees with a thickening, glistening b...
J. Z. KNIGHT Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest...
MARK Z. JACOBSON Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar...
MARK Z. JACOBSON At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
C. Z. GUEST Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
POPPY Z. BRITE Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI By now you've probably noticed that except when safely contained by quotes, Zampanò always steers c...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The ruminations are mine,
let
the world
be yours.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the fi...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI No one ever really gets used to nightmares.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of h...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI ...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to any...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote,...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
A...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I am not a fool. I am wise. I will run from my fear, I will outdistance my fear, then I will hide fr...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No on...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI This is not for you.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You shall be my roots and
I will be your shade,
though the sun burns my leaves.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI We all create stories to protect ourselves.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shi...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be t...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling g...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.
POPPY Z. BRITE the seriousness of emotional deprivation:
It is not difficult to understand how children ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.
EDGAR Z. FREIDENBERG My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was all...
POPPY Z. BRITE Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
POPPY Z. BRITE What we must decide is perhaps how we are valuable, rather than how valuable we are.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
SIGMUND Z. ENGEL You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That...
MARK Z. JACOBSON In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and par...
POPPY Z. BRITE This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably b...
POPPY Z. BRITE In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influenc...
POPPY Z. BRITE No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven
R. Z. SHEPPARD At some point you have to start letting people save their own life.
POPPY Z. BRITE An able practitioner of glitz lit.
R. Z. SHEPPARD Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comf...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Not only do most people accept violence if it is perpetrated by legitimate authority, they also rega...
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG An old man loved is winter with flowers.
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG [Ken] Kesey practices what has come to be known as gonzo journalism. The reporter, often intoxicated...
R. Z. SHEPPARD His reserve of disdain appears endless. He could no sooner shut it off than a vampire could forgo hi...
R. Z. SHEPPARD The 'teenager' seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy...
EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG The short story is like an old friend who calls whenever he is in town. We are happy to hear from it...
R. Z. SHEPPARD It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else c...
POPPY Z. BRITE In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and co...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI The San Francisco Bay Area [is] the playpen of countercultures.
R. Z. SHEPPARD Two kisses in one kiss was all it took, a comfort, a warmth, perhaps temporary, perhaps false, but r...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstac...
MARK Z. JACOBSON ...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish so...
POPPY Z. BRITE Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Let the night come. We are not afraid.
POPPY Z. BRITE The last dying days of summer, fall coming on fast. A cold night, the first of the season, a change ...
POPPY Z. BRITE Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. I...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shi...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience a...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been j...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one ...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI Of course there always will be darkness but I realize now something inhabits it. Historical or not. ...
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