Ruston Kelly (Ruston Samuel Kelly) Quotes
I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.
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Nothing external to you has any power over you.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
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I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.
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I want to be a major force.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
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We Christians should be aware that there's something at stake in cultural participation that we wouldn't have been concerned about if all we did was worry about the messages in culture.
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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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The weekend brought good news for our friends in the cattle industry. At long last, Japan has taken the steps needed for American beef to make its way back into the Japanese market.
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… the ego's need to be periodically in conflict with something or someone in order to strengthen its sense of separation between me and the other, without which it cannot survive.
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I try not to confuse roles and traits in my own life. Being the Perl god is a role. Being a stubborn cuss is a trait.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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'Guess now who holds thee?'-'Death,' I said. But thereThe silver answer rang-'Not Death, but Love.'
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The watchers below pulled in their breath all at once. The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
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Il y a plus d'une sagesse, et toutes sont nécessaires au monde; il n'est pas mauvais qu'elles alternent.
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Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.
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I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.
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I guess that's what art is: Turning something painful into something people can relate to.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a time to honor the greatest champion of racial equality who taught a nation - through compassion and courage - about democracy, nonviolence and racial justice.
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I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.
