Ruston Kelly (Ruston Samuel Kelly) Quotes
It’s a successful feeling when someone tells you that you were instrumental in helping them heal from a great wound in their life.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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I never went to concerts when I was a kid, so I never knew if what I was doing onstage was right.
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People think that the arts are optional and they aren't. They teach a level of emotional depth that's equally important to mathematic skill. You can replace some math skills with a calculator if you know how to operate the thing, but there's no calculator for human interaction.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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I think people have a strong desire to push me and others into some sort of political box that they can wrap their minds around.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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If you write memoir, it can't be about blame or hurt; it has to be creative.
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Valuation is what people are willing to pay.
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This contest has lasted now for more than four years. Were its scene at a distance from our neighborhood, we might be indifferent to its result, although humanity could not be unmoved by many of its incidents wherever they might occur. It is, however, at our door.
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The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
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I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.
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Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had.
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I want to be honest with you. We did not achieve the agreement we expected before the January elections... I feel the deep ethical and political responsibility to put to your judgment all I have done, successes and failures.
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I just go with my gut.
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So much of what passes for public life consists of little more than candidates without ideas, hiring consultants without conviction, to stage campaigns without content. The result, increasingly, is elections without voters.
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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.
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There are a lot of people who give you their opinions on what to do.
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It’s a successful feeling when someone tells you that you were instrumental in helping them heal from a great wound in their life.
