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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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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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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The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.
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I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Now -- fuck -- we've all gotta go back and get busy with our lives. But it was nice that we all came together to experience the INDESTRUCTIBLE POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL once again!
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Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence.
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If you hold onto the beauty and inspiration and the clarity that is music, you will have an anchor, you will not be too far swayed by what the world is
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Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.
