CeeLo Green (Thomas DeCarlo Callaway) Quotes
I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Major labels didn't start showing up really until they smelled money, and that's all they're ever going to be attracted to is money-that's the business they're in- making money.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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People return my phone calls now, which is really interesting. I'll tell you what I've learned that's kind of bittersweet. So many doors have opened up. I've met everybody in the business. I'm fortunate people want to work with me.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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I started at the age of 8 and have been lucky to be still working.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.
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I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.
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Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.
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There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.
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I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.
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Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.
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I was one of those kids, inner-city youth and finding my way. I made it. I made a success out of myself, surprisingly.
