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"1056 Career Quotes

I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

Age Behind Best Better
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.

Am Artist Country Genre
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

About Different Many Much
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I was on the cheerleading squad and drama and the choir, but I was friends with everybody. I was not a partier. I was too Type A and crazy about my grades, but I was still there at everything.

About Choir Crazy Drama
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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

Always Ask Books Days
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I have a great office.

Great Office
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
Always Funny Just Never
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

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If it hadn't been for the videocassette, I may not have had a career at all.

Been Career Had I May Not
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I've never looked at my career in terms of, What haven't I done that I want to do? I just generally find a story that I think is a good one and go to work.

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I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

Acting Any Anymore Care
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When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

Aware Career Done Good
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I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

About Acting Baseball Really
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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
About Had House I Wish
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

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If I say a joke and the audience laughs it makes me feel good.

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I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.

Comic Decided Desire Had
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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Better Different DifferentKinds Fit
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My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Act How Make Money
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When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Basics Dancer First Grand
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I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.

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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.

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I had a job as a paralegal. I drove a cab.

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I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

Regard Career Precious Convictions
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I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

Ahead Attention Both Career
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When Rick Ross made 'Hustlin',' Rick Ross also helped those producers become some of the biggest producers in the world.

Also Become Biggest Helped
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I would never advocate violence on Trump or anyone.

Advocate Anyone Never Trump
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I feel like I can make records where, you know, I can get in the alley and exchange bars with Styles P, but I can also get in the studio and create a classic with Rihanna.

Alley Also Bars Classic
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I'm extremely happy with 'Maybach Music V.'

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For many years, there has been only one place where I am in touch with my emotions fearlessly, and that's the stage. Being on stage fills my soul in many ways, almost completely. It's my vice.

Almost Am Been Being
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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Any Artist Aunts Business
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I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

Artist Before Emotions Felt
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John Legend is brilliant. I feel he may be my best collaborator when it comes to delivering that undeniable soulful sound, and he does it in such a classy way.

Best Brilliant Classy Collaborator
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It's pretty much a given known fact in the industry that before I was successful, I wrote for other artists.

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I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

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When I think of CeeLo Green, I think about previous collaborations, like 'Tears of Joy.'

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Capital Cities - the rock group - I'm a huge fan of theirs.

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With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in common with artists that's struggling to get on.

Artist Artists Being Common
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When I make music and I'm talking on records, it's like I'm painting a picture. In my mind, I'm seeing a film.
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When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

About Across Been Bothering
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I believe I've always been so successful on the black market for a lot of different reasons.

Always Been Believe Black
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I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No

Artist Being Grammys Hip
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Toomp produced 'White House' on my first record, and we made magic.

First House Made Magic
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I finally felt that I came into my own when I went on the stage.
Came Felt Finally I Came
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