John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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If I was doing a musical, I would never listen to the cast album, because I wanted to do my version of something.
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My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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Too often, companies focus on systems and structures that facilitate cultural change at the mid-management level, overlooking problems closer to the top.
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Have a goal. Know where you want to end up. Knowing where you want to end up is a lot easier than figuring out how to start and how to get there. You will figure out how to get there. Do not chart your career. Trust me; you do not want to chart your career.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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What makes a fulfilling relationship or fulfilling life is not simply found in another. It's found in a group of others.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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I like when life is sort of spontaneous. I like the unexpected. I'm comfortable in that!
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If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death.
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This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
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I don't understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it'll go away. That's completely wrong - if it's ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!
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I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
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I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.
