Kris Allen Quotes
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Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
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Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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You get a timeless cool card in New York.
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I've been lucky to work with people that I like most of the time. If I don't like them, I'll play head games with them to get their minds spinning.
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I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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I just kept telling myself that ultimately, the money that my grandparents had put away to go into my college fund, that they were investing for me to go to school and get this education, it had to be worth something.
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This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
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Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.
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I like working on stage because there's something very immediate about it, that interaction with an audience where you immediately hear their reaction, or feel them, whether they're with you.
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I often feel newspapers are just filling up space. Of course, I also know people who write really long books.
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Japanese people accept that art and commerce will be blended; and, in fact, they are surprised by the rigid and pretentious Western hierarchy of 'high art.'
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I know my dad always wanted to heal the world, and so I think it would be great to follow in his footsteps.
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When I was seven, I wanted to be Esther Williams. I was drummed out of Brownies because I snuck off to the cinema to watch an Esther Williams festival - my greatest wish if I get to Hollywood is to meet her.
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
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Could you let me have the 3 weeks due to me now and if I work again before August I must of course repay you at the rate of exchange you let me have it at now if you kindly will.
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For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
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There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.
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It's not my character to up and challenge anyone.
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There are professional negotiators working for the writers and the actors, but basically you've got the writers and actors negotiating against businessmen. That's why you get rhetoric.
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I basically lived like a guy for, certainly, the first decade of my career, and I just wanted to blend in.
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But these young scholars who invade our hills, Bold as the engineer who fells the wood, And travelling often in the cut he makes, Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not, And all their botany is Latin names.
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I've always been a procrastinator.
