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 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 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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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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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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Each of us has something within us which won't be denied, even if it makes us scream aloud to die. We are what we are, that's all. Like the old Celtic legend of the bird with the thorn in its breast, singing its heart out and dying. Because it has to, its self-knowledge can't affect or change the outcome, can it? Everyone singing his own little song, convinced it's the most wonderful song the world has ever heard. Don't you see? We create our own thorns, and never stop to count the cost. All we can do is suffer the pain, and tell ourselves it was well worth it.
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
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There's a spiritual complement to any attempt at transposing a commitment to humanity through music or art.
