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
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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 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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When I got into drama school, that's when I knew that I could safely say that I wanted to be a professional actor.
James Norton
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This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot
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We just weren't a family that gathered around the TV. I grew up in a town where everyone was outside all the time. I was mostly in Connecticut; I spent a lot of time in Tennessee in the summers, but I was in Stamford, Connecticut.
Christopher Abbott
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
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It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.
James Gray
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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
