Courtney A. Kemp Quotes

Courtney A. Kemp

Profession : Writer

Birth : May 4, 1977

Great power is setting a goal, working hard for it, and achieving it in exactly the way you expected with no consequences and no remainders after the long division is done. But does that happen to anyone? The unexpected always hitches a ride along with everything you planned.

Courtney A. Kemp

Wherever I go, stuff accumulates.

Courtney A. Kemp

You don't keep your job if you don't make a great show.

Courtney A. Kemp

50 Cent and I really started to bond over our love for music. The first conversations we had were about Curtis Mayfield.

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There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist.

Courtney A. Kemp

Ultimately, at the end of the day, taking a chance on 'Power' is taking a chance on me.

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I knew I wanted to write professionally and get paid.

Courtney A. Kemp

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

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Obviously I'm not from 50's background - I'm from Westport, Connecticut, which is as far away from his background as you can get, right? Growing up in Westport, for a long time I was the only black person living there for miles.

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Knowing what I don't know helps me every day.

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The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

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When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.

Courtney A. Kemp

I love Pusha T and The Clipse.

Courtney A. Kemp

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

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Every writer should be able to write anything if you do the research and you're sensitive enough to ask the questions.

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Writers are, for the most part, crazy people. We're like Hephaestus of the forge. We're gnarled. We're curled over. We walk with a limp.

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The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic.

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The story always leads you where it's supposed to go.

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Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

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Not many people get to create a television show that actually makes it on the air.

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