John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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I really love acting, but I also really want to be a historian, so it's really confusing.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Something that's very painful for me is when people wear pants that are too short.
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I've always wanted to work with Paul Newman. I had a couple opportunities in the past, and I didn't take advantage of it, so it was really fun to be working with him.
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I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
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Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.
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I just don't let music genres define me.
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As a music supervisor, you learn to embrace the best of every genre, and I really have to say there's nothing that I'm embarrassed of.
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I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
