Blake Shelton Quotes
It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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I was an expert horseman.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I would see it in my lifetime. It doesn't matter nowadays if you are caught in traffic or got lost on the way somewhere. You can just send a text and the recipient will know that you haven't fallen under a bus.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Maybe if Graziano make another work or another sport I wouldn't have had this passion to be a rider.
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I need talk more, call people out. It's not who I am, but I feel I need to do this more to bring more attention for me.
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Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
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Not to take anything away from artists who don't write their own songs, but it's always been important to me to make sure it's my story.
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It's 40 years this year it's been on the air continually,
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Intonation is important, especially when it is cold.
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Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.
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It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs.
