Bobby Rush (Emmett Ellis Jr.) Quotes
I’m probably the only artist who has sold close to a million records from the trunk of my car.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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The impact we have on people's lives, to me, is more important than any title anyone can carry.
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I actually started working in Chicago while I was still a student; I did the Chicago premiere of 'The History Boys' at the end of my junior year. I had come to Chicago for Northwestern University. I didn't quite know about the theater community, and what I did know was mostly the improv.
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Hey, you've got the girl, I've got the picture. That's fair, right?
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Maybe we just like winners, ... We hope some of that will carry over to the Redskins.
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I had made myself the center of my own existence and had my back turned to God.
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Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.
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Did you really think I would be this excited about college if I thought I'd be leaving my girl behind?
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Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
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I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.
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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.
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I was raised in the church, and there's still a fire burning inside me. I definitely don't ever want to be preachy. But less and less young people are religious. The thing is, I see so many positive things about religion, so I'm happy to talk about it.
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When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
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Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes.
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If I stopped making records or performing, I'd probably still be famous for a while being me. But I'd rather have something to show for myself.
