Kurt Elling Quotes
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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We took Big Pun, a 700-lb Spanish guy, one of the greatest rappers ever, and made him a sex symbol. Women would wait on line to kiss him.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.
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I'm not really into method acting - the way I was taught was the good old-fashioned British way of just doing your research and getting on with it.
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When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.
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I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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We haven't really gotten the credit for what we have done.
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For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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I used to be more of a sporty girl. I love outdoor activities. I haven't been doing much since living in Vancouver. I have my routines down in L.A.
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Abortion opponents say women seek abortions in haste and confusion. Pro-choicers reply: Abortion is the most difficult, agonizing decision a woman ever makes.
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My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.
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Las Vegas and I both grew up together, and all of a sudden I was doing things that no performer had ever done before.
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I don't want to be on 'Dancing With the Stars' anytime soon.
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I love writing in compressed time periods because the act of survival in the midst of panic and fear, that's where true heroism comes. If you have a uniform, and you're expected to do things, it's a sort of incremental heroism.
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If you are 26 years old and you're waking up under Star Wars sheets... the Force is not with you.
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I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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I know how hard it's been for me to get my thing out there.
