R. Kelly Quotes
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Urban residents, most of them middle class, have a much better sense of their environmental rights, and they're willing to take to the streets.
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As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.
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I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.
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We are such materialists that all our metaphors are going to be material.
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You are neither right nor wrong because people agree with you.
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The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.
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When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
