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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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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I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.
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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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Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.
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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 -
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.
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I was Everett LeRoi Jones. My grandfather's name was Everett.
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I take a lot of pride in being able to say that what you see is what you get.
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They just keep saying I need to know the playbook, but if I'm never out there it would be hard to know how much I do know, ... My time is going to come. They're going to throw me out there in the fire and I've got to perform.
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I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
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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.
