Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.

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• The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day.

  

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• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

  

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• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

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• You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.

  

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• I want to play interesting women.

  

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• If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

  

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• Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!

  

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• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

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• There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

  

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• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

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• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

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• There are guys on different teams across the league who are bench guys, and guys who that - that's their role, to be on the bench encouraging guys to play hard and get good minutes.

  

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• I'm very inspired by nature - you could say Mother Nature. I look at things around me and get all kinds of inspiration daily.

  

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• Me being an artist working with dancers and seeing how hard they work, they are the first to show up and the last to leave. They work just as hard, if not harder, than me - and they never get credit for it.

  

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