Lil Nas X
American rapper
That I can’t control it.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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Which teacher, parent, coach or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?
Relationships
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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What are you still hoping to finish?
Death & what remains
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work?
Craft & work
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
But there’s nothing like that quality of leading a decent, dignified life, meeting up with other people who have similar ideals, expressing kindness and love and curiosity and challenging and argument and the excitement of ideas. Ideas can be marvelous.
Interview, Cape Town, South Africa, American Academy of Achievement, 3 July 2009 source ↗
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To keep trying to listen to yourself.
Genuine love is given freely, not by force.
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And I get so upset when I hear that, because are you saying: Poor people only want a roof over their heads and want food? That poor people are not interested in beauty and rights and fairness and justice?
I’d say, “I’m going to be a doctor.” I don’t know why I changed. I know my dad had something to do with it.
I want to give little Oliver as much daddy as I can while I’ve got strength. I want to make a movie. I’ve got a very strong movie in my head.
I think of two great personalities who were locked up in the prison where we’ve now built the Constitutional Court: Gandhi and Mandela.
Monday to Friday, very, very industriously from ten in the morning ’til about six in the evening, I just sat and wrote, and revised and revised, and wrote.
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