Kurt Elling Quotes
There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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I'm a normal girl. I don't go out much, and I don't know what is enjoyment.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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I'm the worst person to be stuck with in a traffic jam.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I hope to instill, in every child I meet, my love and enthusiasm for reading and stories.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
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When you're creating a fragrance, you're always thinking about what you want that first smell to be, that first reaction. It's a sensation, like a symphony with all of those layers and notes. I love the way it changes and the way it dries down. The fun thing about scent is that it's unique to everyone; pheromones take on a new scent.
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Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.
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There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.
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Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.
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Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
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I talk a lot, and that is probably exhausting.
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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
