Kelis Rogers (Kelis) Quotes
My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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Thinking about your role will automatically get you in the frame of mind to get your strategy and game plan right before you step onto that field.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered.
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I was raised in Mississippi, in a family and a community that identified as black, and I have the stories and the experiences to go with it. One of my great-great grandfathers was killed by a gang of white Prohibition patrollers.
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The passion for art is, as for believers, very religious. It unites people, its message is of common humanity. Art has become my religion - others pray in church. It's a banality, but you don't possess art, it possesses you. It's like falling in love.
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Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
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My audience is made up of such bizarre, rare people. They're very sparse and scattered; it's not like a huge body of people.
