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

• 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

• 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

• From these biased studies come biased social policy. Hundreds of millions of dollars to enforce sanctions against fathers who don’t pay mothers; almost nothing to enforce sanctions against mothers who don’t allow fathers to see children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children

• Believe me, sequels are just as hard to make as original films.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Believe

• That's what you feel as an athlete. Pretty much our job is to make the impossible happen every day. It's like magic, you know. I like that.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Job
  • Pretty
  • Day

• Certainly, protecting oppressed people, stopping ethnic conflict and promoting responsible governance are worthy goals. But none is as important for American security and prosperity as keeping the peace in the Middle East, Europe and East Asia.

  

  Michael Mandelbaum
  • People
  • Responsible
  • Prosperity

• Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Moment
  • Page
  • Prepare

• When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Mother
  • Wife
  • Environment

• 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