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 did this film with Russell Crowe called 'The Water Diviner,' which took place just after WWI. It was fascinating because the weapons between WWI and WII were very different. I had to learn how to ride horses in a battle setting. It was important that we rode a certain way.
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The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
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The imprimatur of truthfulness does not guarantee truthfulness. People should know better. But they don't.
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There are actresses who've had expensive work done and look great, so I'm not holier-than-thou about it. But it wouldn't be for me, perhaps because I've already been in hospital and wouldn't want to volunteer myself for it again.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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I know how hard it's been for me to get my thing out there.
