Cleveland Sellers Quotes
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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I have a cat named Dandelion.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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My hair grows and grows; you cannot stop it - that fellow grows, it grows wild.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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There's always pressure, from other people and yourself. If you're happy with the looks you're born with, then what are you going to do your whole life? We keep thinking up new things and finding better ways of doing things because we're not happy with what we're given.
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Other people notice the same things but they don't think to put it to music.
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If you just work on that one thing that's, like, important to you, that has been supportive of you, who has been loving you all this time, if you are able to see that, then that is your 'best love'.
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Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.
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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
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A sold-out crowd is better than a number one. But being in the studio is better than all of that.
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Most men have a deadness in them that frightens me so because of my own deadness. Why can't men get their life straight, like St.Mawr, and then think? Why can't they think quick, mother: quick as a woman: only farther than we do?
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You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
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We measured our success not just by how much money we made, but by how much we contributed to the community. It was a two-part bottom line.
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The advice I like to give to drummers is that there's no right or wrong way of playing the drums. I think the drumming community can be very antiquated and very stuck in the past of, like, this Neil Peart style, technical Guitar Center drum video kind of approach. That you need to have played for 15 years before you ever do anything worthwhile.
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We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.
