John Mellencamp Quotes

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

John Mellencamp

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YouWorstFirstAfraidHappenFail

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Jesse Ventura

LifePoliticsMy LifeCareerRadio

Two quilters who have just met will be strangers only until their mutual passion for quilting is revealed. Then they can talk for hours like the best of friends.

Jennifer Chiaverini

PassionBestFriendsStrangersTalk

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

Melanie Laurent

LifeWorkGreatTiredFriendsYou

I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

Anita Elberse

SportsTimeMeDataPublic Domain

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence. But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Steve Coogan

FunnyGreatSimpleSilencePeople

'Billionaire' is basically about, you know, like 'Brewster's Millions.' It's me talking about what would happen if I would somehow manage to become a billionaire. What would I do with the money? Don't get it wrong, I'm far from a billionaire. I think I just made it out the 'thousandaire' category.

Travie McCoy

MoneyMeThinkTalkingYouWrong

I find looking forward scary because you might die.

Domhnall Gleeson

Looking ForwardLookingForwardDie

You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.

Dominick Dunne

LifeRichEnoughYouPowerfulWrite

My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.

Deana Carter

MusicRelationshipWritingEndWay

I tend to treat everyone like equals. That is my downfall, though, because Oprah is Oprah, and Barack is Barack, and you've gotta come in with a certain level of respect and admiration and love while still having that respect. Look at them - these people are, at this point, royalty. I think I get a little too chummy.

Chrissy Teigen

LoveRespectPeopleTreatThinkYou

Just being a girl coming from YouTube, I know what it's like to have a very humble, simple beginning. It would be kinda crazy for my fans if I made it huge in that way and became the next big thing. I wanna be able to do it for them and say, 'Look, this is what you've done for me.'

Christina Grimmie

GirlHumbleSimpleBeginningCrazy

What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent, not utterly barbarous, but civilized in a very small degree? Does any one suppose a slave trade would help their civilization?

William Wilberforce

SmallHelpCountryCivilizationMust

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