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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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 meet blind and partially-sighted young readers all the time, and it's a shock that so few books are available to them.
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I am not famous at all.
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This is the test and triumph of originality, not to show us what has never been, and what we may therefore very easily never have dreamt of, but to point out to us what is before our eyes and under our feet, though we have had no suspicion of its existence, for want of sufficient strength of intuition, of determined grasp of mind to seize and retain it.
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Yet smelt roast meat, beheld a huge fire shine, And cooks in motion with their clean arms bared.
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In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.
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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
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I know how hard it's been for me to get my thing out there.
