Ruston Kelly (Ruston Samuel Kelly) Quotes
Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.
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It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
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I'm a country girl at heart.
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I never want any problems with anybody in this world.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
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I have gotten to travel the world and experience all these incredible things thanks to my career.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.
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In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.
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As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
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I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.
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Maybe it's because I was too much reality, but I'm not interested in seeing too much reality anymore. I'd rather watch a Dean Martin concert and let the world go by.
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Without deviation progress is not possible.
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Songwriting has always been a means to an end for me. That end being a tool to try to understand myself in the world and, through observation, make sense of the world.
