Kurt Elling Quotes
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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I wasn't trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn't want to be fake.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
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Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.
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I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
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My brother told me he was very proud of me, of the business I have built, and that gives me joy.
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Competition is such a virtue, and everybody's so busy competing, they have no time for compassion.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
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A thriller is supposed to thrill you! So it's the plotting of the movie and the unveiling of the story which is important.
Nastassja Kinski -
I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about.
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It is of the essence of traditions that they cover or conceal their humble foundations by erecting impressive edifices on them.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no 'times' anymore, no prevailing Zeitgeist that sets the fashion, pace, and prevailing look.
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Strangely enough, I don't mention my sister too much in my columns because she nags me and says, 'Don't make me look foolish. Don't write nonsense about me. Don't make jokes about me.'
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When I drove up on the set one day, and they'd put up a sign that says 'The Bill Engvall Show,' I stood there for 20 minutes just staring at it. The director, James Widdoes, came up and said, 'What are you doing?' And I said, 'Look at this! There's my name on a stage door in Hollywood!'
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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I'm a goof, man.
