John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.
Quotes to Explore
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.
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The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.
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When I was a little girl, my dream was just to hear my song on the radio. It was very fascinating to me, and I was like, 'How do I do that?' Now it's like, 'Oh my God, my song is on the radio!'
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I speak two languages, Body and English.
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I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.
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Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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I have to remind myself constantly to not be antisocial, because I stay to myself a lot. I'm a lot more introspective than my characters.
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I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids, that want to watch 'Finding Nemo,' and I'm like, 'Yeah, okay, let's watch 'Nemo' again, for the seven billionth time!,' because they're amazing movies.
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Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.
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I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease, and I tell people, if I had my whole life to live over, I would have it, because it has really made me into the person that I am.
Gail Devers -
Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.
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I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.
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The great thing about London is the little pockets of culture, like Hackney, which has its panto and its great community. Of course there's also the West End with its brilliant theatres and thriving tourism but to also have areas like Hackney which are so community based but not exclusive, that remind you that those surrounding you are the most important, is what makes London what it is.
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Don't fear sharing your best ideas online: 1) Competition already knows what you are up to 2) People like leaders not followers.
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Football, bloody hell!
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How we feel about our kids isn't as important as how they experience those feelings and how they regard the way we treat them.
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A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate.
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When you're releasing an album, you never know how it's going to go. You never know how a critic is going to receive it or how much it's going to sell.
