John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
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I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei & Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
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I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'
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People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.
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At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
