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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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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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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I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.
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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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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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We must believe in free will, we have no choice.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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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What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted? 2
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[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.
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If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
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I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.
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I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life.
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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.
