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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Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.
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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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Bands have always written songs against what they see as wrong. Ronald Reagan really made for a lot of songs.
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There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.
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I'm spinning records and I look across the restaurant and I see somebody who looks Asian. And I'm like, "Yo, that looks like Yoko Ono." I'm like, oh, I can just meet - that's going to be great. Then I look carefully and I'm like, "That's not Yoko Ono, that's Bruno Mars." And it was Bruno Mars. That just happened recently. I was bugging out. Because that was totally not Yoko Ono at all.
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I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.
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I’m probably the only artist who has sold close to a million records from the trunk of my car.
