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Distance sometimes lets you know who’s worth keeping and who’s worth letting go.

Frank Ocean

When you’re happy you enjoy the music, but when you’re sad you understand the lyrics.
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Enjoyment Happiness Lyrics Music Understand
We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor – got her master’s with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.
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Acceptance Hard Work Past Poor Story
It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.
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Debut Essential Radio Record Week
I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
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Director Film
Work hard in silence, let success be your noise.
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Motivational Noise Silence Success Work Hard
It’s more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I’m naive, where I’m a novice.
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Area Interesting Superior
Smile, it’s easier than explaning why you’re sad.
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Easy Explanation Sad Smile
Go for someone who is proud to have you.
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Friendship Love One Liner Proud Relationship
When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‘No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.’
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Success Writing
Any of us can live without affecting one another.
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Affection Each Other Live Love
When you write a song like ‘Forrest Gump,’ the subject can’t be androgynous. It requires an unnecessary amount of effort.
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Effort Requirement Song Subject Unnecessary Writing
I don’t have any secrets I need kept any more.
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Life Secret
Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.
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Important Journalism Music Play Press Thinking
How we experience memory sometimes, it’s not linear. We’re not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we’re just seeing it in flashes overlaid.
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Experience Flash Memories Ourselves Story
I hope not to define myself by suffering.
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Hope Myself Suffering
I was a thug.
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One Liner Thug

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