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.
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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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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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If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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To retreat after a work well done is Heaven's Way.
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When I lived in Paris, I would shop at antique shops and buy these huge coats because I was very cold. And then I started performing in them because I felt safe. I never stopped doing that.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.
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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.
