R. Kelly Quotes

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.

R. Kelly

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LifeMotherMeGameYouWill

He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.

John Donne

GodEyesSoulManSaySee

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

John Lasseter

FatherCarManagerNutParts

The thing that's interesting about Trump is that when you read 'Coriolanus,' you'd be tempted to draw parallels. But I don't do that.

Robert Lepage

InterestingYouReadTrumpAbout

I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.

Maud Adams

PeopleThoughtHometownFindPerson

That pesky acting career has always gotten in the way of me doing something with music.

Michael Chiklis

MusicMeDoingCareerActingWay

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

John Wayne

FatherSchoolLosingLawWriting

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.

John Perry Barlow

PeopleEntertainmentAlwaysIndustry

One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now.

Chris Isaak

WorryYouNewNowActorRight

You want to win. Everyone says, 'It's just an honor to be nominated,' but that's so not true. You want to win.

Chris Kirkpatrick

WinHonorYouWantTrueEveryone

People love talking about writers as storytellers, but I hate being called that: it suggests I got it from my grandmother or something, when my writing really comes out of silence. If a storyteller came up to me, I'd run away.

Colm Toibin

LoveHateSilencePeopleMeWriting

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

Branford Marsalis

WorkBrainYouSometimesWhatever

I aspire to play interesting characters.

Arjun Kapoor

InterestingPlayAspireCharacters

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