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.

John Roger Stephens

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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.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • American
  • Reality
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Model
  • Famous

• 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.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • America
  • Look

• When a product is made, everyone hopes for the best. Whether it could have been better or not is more of an afterthought.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Best
  • Better
  • Product

• The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • You
  • Parent

• 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!'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • God
  • Dream
  • Song

• I speak two languages, Body and English.

  

  Mae West
  • English
  • Body
  • Speak

• I don't feel my son should pay the price for what I do.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Son
  • Feel
  • Price

• Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • World
  • Change
  • Search

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Up
  • Running
  • Always

• 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.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Myself
  • More
  • Antisocial

• 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.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Friends

• Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Animals
  • Dogs

• 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
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Fortunately my career has never been about how I look, it's about how I can be.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Career
  • Never
  • Look

• I read a great number of press reports and find comfort in the fact that they are nearly always conflicting.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Great
  • Find
  • Comfort

• Meditate upon the guru as the glow of your awareness.

  

  Yeshe Tsogyal

• I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

  

  William Habington
  • Country
  • Pride
  • Manners

• I grew up in a small town where we played around on motorcycles and things, but it really started when I got old enough. I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Small

• I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Believe
  • Support

• Hire people who are smarter than you, and don't be afraid to work with them as partners. Make it clear that you plan to learn from them, not just the other way around. The right, smart, motivated people respond very well to that approach, particularly coming from a younger manager like I am.

  

  Lynn Jurich
  • People
  • Work
  • Smart

• 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.

  

  John Roger Stephens