Blake Shelton Quotes
Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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Acting is a cruel enough business. One minute everyone's going 'Hey!' and the next they're going 'Who?'. You certainly don't need people knowing your private business, especially if you want to come out with your head still attached.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you can tap a few keywords into monster.com, then click through and apply? Why pay a steep per-character rate for a classified when you can hawk a whole garage full of used stuff on EBay or Craigslist for free?
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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I love New York.
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I was an intern on a film called 'The Long Walk Home.'
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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There is no way I could have played fourteen years in the NFL if I didn't work my butt off on the practice field perfecting my technique or spend hours upon hours in the film room studying defenses.
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Of all the mediums that influence language, I think film is the one that has the most effect. Not so much from the point of view of pronunciation and grammar. I don't think we pick up very many sounds and grammatical instructions from the films we see - but the catchphrases.
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It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
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Anybody that has followed closely what I've been doing can see from 'Home,' being as big a hit as it was, it kind of opened the door for me to try new things musically.
