Charles Kelley Quotes
My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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There's certain things as a songwriter that I don't really care to write about, and there are certain things I won't sing about anymore. There are just so many things that I probably thought was OK for me, or have been in the past, that I would never want my son to think was OK.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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My husband passed away a long time ago, and of course a lot of people have courted me. I've been taken to dinner and also to things like Larry Hagman, in particular years ago. And more recently, of course, little Hugh Jackman - and he's too young for me though, frankly.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.
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I don't throw my clothes out after one wear. Shocking, I know.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I worked in a restaurant and in a nightclub cloakroom.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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I'm not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody.
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What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we know how...We want to include songs that lyrically cover subjects ranging from the heaviest things we've ever done to light-hearted experiences that can best be presented through sentimental bluesy ballads that are usually good for a chuckle or two.
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My wife has a horror the children will start talking American if we spend too much time out there.
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In New York, lights are on the whole night; there are offices where not a single person is working, but all lights are on. The street lights at the White House are lit all the day. Why? And we are being told not to use coal.
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My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that moment. I was trying to replicate that dance-off between Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears.
