Nelly (Cornell Iral Haynes Jr.) Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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Dementia is, after all, a symptom of organic brain damage. It is a condition, a disorder of the central nervous system, brought about in my case by a viral assault on brain tissue. When the assault wiped out certain intellectual processes, it also affected emotional processes.
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Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.
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I wanted to experience New York, to look up and see buildings.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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You can stroke people with words.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya.
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I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.
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When Coltrane died, a void appeared in this music that has not been filled yet. He maintained a forward motion in his work and did not look back.
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As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
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I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.
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Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?
