Babyface (Kenneth Brian Edmonds) Quotes
I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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CNN is getting smarter, and you can feel it in the stories, you can feel it in the depth with which they're covered, the kinds of people in terms of guests who are brought on air, the way in which issues are discussed.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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There are at least two retrospectives of my work each year in some country.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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You do what is manageable, and you do it well rather than trying to do a thousand things just a little bit OK.
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I like the look of a windmill.
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I think Shep Smith is probably the premier anchor/journalist of my generation. He's terrific, and he does the news straight and let the chips fall where they may.
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There's a lot going on in the Bassett-Vance household, a lot of balls in the air.
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I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.
