Kurt Elling Quotes
You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.
Kurt Elling
Quotes to Explore
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I think I'd say that my whole body of work is a reflection of who I am, but not any one specific thing.
Zooey Deschanel
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
Taraji P. Henson
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I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.
Jack L. Chalker
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Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.
Mandy Moore
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
Madison Smartt Bell
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
LaToya Jackson
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I own a mortgage company and a real estate company funded by the music. Florida is a kinda gold mine.
Vanilla Ice
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I usually don't really have breakfast.
Wendy Kopp
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Outside, the main doors behind him, he was hit full in the chest by autumn. The doggy wind leapt about him and nipped; leaves skirred along the pavement, the scrape of the ferrules of sticks; melancholy, that tetrasyllable, sat on a plinth in the middle of the square. English autumn, and the whistling tiny souls of the dead round the war memorial.
Anthony Burgess
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What if I am an aficionado of bullfights and I think, contrary to the animal cruelty people, that they ennoble both beast and man. I would not be able to market videos showing people how exciting a bullfight.
Antonin Scalia
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Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?
Marcus Aurelius
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'There is much to be known,' said Adaon, 'and above all much to be loved, be it the turn of the seasons or the shape of a river pebble. Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.'
Lloyd Alexander
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In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. There are ways I think the form could work more effectively if we lost the bad habits that were created before we were born.
Frank Miller
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I think that part of the issue here is when people hear 'Black Lives Matter,' sometimes they think that someone is saying your life doesn't matter, and that's not what 'Black Lives Matter,' at least to me, is saying.
Benjamin Watson
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I have this long-running idea that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is not just, 'Did it happen or didn't it happen?' It's one of form.
Geoff Dyer
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When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.
John Oates
Daryl Hall & John Oates
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
Caleb Cushing
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You don't want to make records so you can win a Grammy. You make records because you want to be a musician.
Kurt Elling
