Kurt Elling Quotes
I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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I always thought 'Rome' would change things for me, that people would finally understand what I do.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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My life is better with every year of living it.
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If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.
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I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.
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Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.
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Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.
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Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
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The first thing I started collecting was stamps. Until I started discovering girls. That was the end of stamps.
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In America, I can just be glamorous, which is lovely. People are happy and accepting of exactly what it is I do.
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I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy - gunman - kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So, a pretty horrific experience.
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It's really cool to see people show up at the shows night after night, and they're screaming the words of the song.
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I'd been studying philosophy at the University of Chicago. I hadn't been doing well, because I was sitting in with jazz musicians at night - it's hard to read Heidegger, but it's especially hard if you're half asleep.
