Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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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.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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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.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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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.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I don't want to get fat.
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I keep a $2 bill rolled up in every pair of boots I own because one time, an older guy came up to me at a farmer's market I was playing in Memphis, handed me a $2 bill, and said, 'Stick this in your boot.' And when I stood back up, he handed me a $100 bill and said, 'Thanks for listening to me. Stick this in your pocket.'
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If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.
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Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.
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When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my mother and I saw how much fun he was having and I decided I wanted to try it too.
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Rapping is the only time I'm serious.
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I would've given my right arm to do something on the 'Ray' film, the movie about Ray Charles.
