Kurt Elling Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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If the girl is good looking and talented, and for some reason the film doesn't work, she gets a second chance. But if subsequent films don't work, she gets branded as an 'iron leg.' The whole thing gets negative.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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The reactions of organic magnesium compounds are of two kinds - reactions of substitution and reactions of addition.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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Living with very limited expectations is a much more immediate way of living. You really do just make the best of everything you have. I guess kids have that ability; they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement.
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
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In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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You don't know what bravery is until you overcome fear.
