Chely Wright Quotes
I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
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I was black growing up in an all-white neighborhood, so I felt like I just didn't fit in. Like I wasn't as good as everybody else, or as smart, or whatever.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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I've worked out for years. For a long time, it was my only sense of gratification.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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Even when you're being safe, eight hours of choreography makes you look like you've been through a war. It's hard. It's like playing hockey for eight hours.
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They want you to bring out your intestines.
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I make the money, and I don't have to take the abuse some of the stars do, opening up their personal life. I can go into a restaurant, sit down, and have a nice meal without being harassed. Arnold Schwarzenegger can't do that.
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I gravitate towards sort of broken characters who try to be better people.
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I think I'm no different from any artist in music. At least once, you want to see your name up on the top.
