Kiesa Rae Ellestad (Kiesza) Quotes

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.

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• Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Dark

• I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Kind
  • Like
  • Chocolate

• I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Hope

• Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.

  

  Mae West
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  • Want
  • Dresses

• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
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• When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

  

  B. B. King
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• The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
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• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Hollywood

• Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Market
  • Other

• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Fashion

• I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Life
  • Always
  • Human

• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • People
  • Play
  • Games

• I was once in a long relationship with a man who ran a vintage clothes store but had been a chef, so I'd come home each night to a different three-course meal. I was quite fat, but so happy.

  

  Paloma Faith
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• Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Way
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• I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.

  

  Dan Farmer
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  • Learning
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• I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
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  • Woman

• The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Painting
  • Try

• I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

  

  Jamie Farr

• When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

  

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  • Fear

• My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • First
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• I often ask myself if I am afraid of being detained again. I love freedom as much as anybody else, maybe more than most. But it is a tragedy to live your life in fear. It is worse than actually losing your freedom.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Live
  • Freedom

• Once my ears were open to hearing mentions of 'Shark Tank', I was surprised by how many people in our world, even in our industry, tech and finance, loved the show.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • People
  • World

• I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.

  

  Kiesa Rae Ellestad
  • Great
  • Song