Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.

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• The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Music

• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Time
  • Work
  • Problem

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • May
  • America
  • You

• My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Myself
  • Idea
  • Original

• I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Eyes
  • Government
  • Impossible

• My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Grandfather
  • Boxes
  • Failed

• The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • America
  • Company
  • Irish

• My awkward stage extended well into high school.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Character
  • Like
  • Story

• When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Live
  • Hollywood
  • Los Angeles

• At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Everything

• If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • You
  • Wants
  • Turn

• I don't want to get fat.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Want
  • Get
  • Fat

• When a person tests positive for HIV, it is not a test for the virus itself but for antibodies to the virus, and the test is not able to distinguish between HIV antibodies and a multitude of other antibodies. Many conditions can lead to a false positive result, including flu shots, hepatitis, and pregnancy.

  

  Nate Mendel Foo Fighters
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  • Lead
  • Pregnancy

• She was an enthusiastic painter of oils and watercolors. She was also very generous. I could mess with her paints and brushes all I wanted. On one condition: that I kept my brushes clean. The only art lesson my mother gave me was how to wash my brushes.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Art
  • She
  • Mother

• Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures turning into people. I recognized the conflict between evolutionary ideas and a literal reading of the book of Genesis.

  

  Ken Ham
  • People
  • School
  • Book

• If a movie is received badly, and I'm in only one scene of it, I still feel responsible. I feel like it was my fault at all times. If people were like, 'This movie sucks!' I'd be like, 'Well, that's because I'm terrible.'

  

  Melanie Lynskey
  • People
  • Movie

• I saw how the night came, Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks. I felt afraid. And I remembered the cry of the peacocks.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Night
  • Color

• As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Kids
  • Reality
  • Library

• I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Movie