Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes
Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.Kelis Rogers
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
Imelda May -
In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
Edmund White -
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz -
What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
Octavia Spencer -
I've always wanted to do a period piece.
Kate Mara -
I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.
Barry Bonds
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Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders -
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
Macaulay Culkin -
I'm such a bad shopper for myself. I love fashion and all that kind of stuff, but that's sort of the last thing I want to do when I'm done with a film is go shopping. I want to just chill.
Malin Akerman -
I usually have about four books on the go - a bedside book, a lavatory book, a downstairs book, and the book in my study that I read sneakily while I should be writing. Short stories for the lavatory, obviously.
Mal Peet -
So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
Irene Dunne -
Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.
Adam Carolla
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
Palmer Luckey -
In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
Florence King -
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I love hugging people. I still hug everybody in my meet-and-greet lines.
Taylor Swift
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.
Parker Posey -
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
Jack White The White Stripes -
I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.
Rafael dos Anjos -
While I'm driving north, I'm already thinking about kippers - it's worth the journey just to have kippers for breakfast on Saturday.
Kevin Whately -
Growing up, my mom had a catering business. I used to help her pretty early on and loved doing it. My mom is an amazing cook, and she helped me cultivate a love for food. She taught me that food can be beautiful. We eat not just for survival, but we survive to eat. It's part of who I am.
Kelis Rogers