Elvis Duran Quotes
To meet an artist when they first start out is like having a seat on the 50-yard line and watching them get a touchdown... The Weeknd, Pink, Harry Styles, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan, Kesha - these are all artists I interviewed back before anyone knew who they were. To watch them turn into these superstars is just amazing.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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Practices were tough.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which warrants slavery.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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A lot of people who were writing when I came through originally as a singer-songwriter have disappeared.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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'Better to make haste slowly than not at all,' said Amnir sententiously.
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When I write a book, I don't have an idea of what I'm doing. I just go where it leads.
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One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me. The friends I hang out with, we create our own work rather than complain about acting.
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There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
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In the 1960s, you had this booming economy, and you didn't really have enough men around to fill all the jobs. So there was this sudden demand that women come back and perform a lot of the white-collar and pink-collar roles that men had done before or that hadn't existed before.
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To meet an artist when they first start out is like having a seat on the 50-yard line and watching them get a touchdown... The Weeknd, Pink, Harry Styles, Lorde, Miley Cyrus, Niall Horan, Kesha - these are all artists I interviewed back before anyone knew who they were. To watch them turn into these superstars is just amazing.
