John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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I've covered the White House and been yelled at by presidents.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.
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From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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Public education grants secular worldviews an exclusive monopoly in the classroom.
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Because of my tremendous respect for Bob Barker and for the show's high standards of professionalism I consider this a tremendous honor that few announcers have ever been treated to. Both Rod's and Johnny's shoes are huge; I can't think about filling them.
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Homosexuality is anti-humanity.
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.
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Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.
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I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
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Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
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What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.
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Awards are not something that I measure my work by. I've been so fortunate and I've gotten to do such terrific things that it seems petty to look back and say, 'Oh, I should have gotten that prize.' I don't look at it that way.
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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did. Who had ever heard of the Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz? He is not politically involved. Octavio Paz is a great poet, also not politically involved. The Nobel Prize is for literature, for the quality of work over the years.
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Very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.
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I was always the front man for what I was doing from when I was 6.
