Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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The reason why I moved from Young Thug to Jeffery was because I felt like I did a wrong turn.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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I don't think I've ever been chatted up, and I don't think I've ever chatted anyone up. The Fresh Prince has the best chat-up lines.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in uniform, and it is certainly taxing our resolve.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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Improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing. That's a kind of paradoxical thing about improvising.
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My wife wants four kids, and obviously if we're having four kids, I need to make sure that the priority is family first.
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
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'Deadwood' proved that viewers are smarter in terms of grasping intricate dialogue than they had been given credit for.
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It's a very different thing when you're creating the world as opposed to when you're just part of the world. I love the detail of it, the problem-solving of it, and I love working with actors.
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I stand for the Midwest. That's why the album's titled 'M.O.,' 'cause I'm still holding it down like that. My friends and family all call me Mo, so it's kind of like really representing where I'm from and me at the same time.
