Kelsea Ballerini Quotes

I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

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• In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Alone

• I love working the legislative process.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Working
  • Process
  • Legislative

• The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Success
  • Man
  • Opportunity

• When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Movie

• I think to be Miss U.S.A., first of all, you need to represent everybody, all of us here.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Think
  • You
  • Need

• Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Act
  • Libertarian
  • Patriot

• When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Age
  • Old Age

• One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Long
  • Book
  • Always

• Let's put it this way: I would consider my skiing ability to be far superior to my skating ability. And, in fact, my 10-year-old grandson, who's a AAA squirt, can skate circles around me.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Way
  • Ability
  • Fact

• To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • People
  • Advice
  • Circumstances

• I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • School
  • High
  • Dad

• Characters have changed my mind about some very fundamental moral issues, and that's the real satisfaction in the way I write - the ultimate learning experience.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Experience

• I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • God
  • Pretty
  • Free

• With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Character
  • American
  • Freedom

• We know the climate is changing. We don't know if it will be really bad or nearly apocalyptic. Both are within the realm of possibility.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Bad
  • Know
  • Changing

• The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Work
  • Nature

• History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Different
  • History

• What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Gold

• I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

  

  Jimmy Kimmel
  • Reading

• I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

  

  DeObia Oparei

• We had a huge audience, we sold truckloads of albums. If we do something that's cool, people will listen to it. If we don't, we would be selling people short.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • People
  • Cool

• I think that, as artists, all we can do is be who we are. I think that if we do that, then we're automatically not anyone else.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini