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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I'm not an alcoholic, I only drink two times a year. When it's my birthday, and when it's not my birthday.
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I'll tell you what I do have: I have a good feel for ordinary people, for politics, and those are my strengths. I understand, I hope instinctively, where many of our Armed Forces come from.
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I did go to an MFA program, at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For me, it worked perfectly. It was a small program. They only take five fiction writers a year, and they fund all of us - you don't go into debt to get an MFA. It's not like getting an MBA - you're not going to buy yourself out.
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I long ago lost track of the number of times the Obama administration has assured everyone that its vacuum-cleaner approach to electronic surveillance does not threaten the privacy or the rights of Americans.
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I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
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When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
