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“If one cannot accept failure and scorn, how is he to make his art? It's like wanting to go to heaven without dying.”
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“I say the stupidest stuff, all the time, off of Twitter, and so I think Twitter is good way for people to get to know the stupid side of me.”
Source : "Five Questions with Kris Allen". www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009. 
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“I'm a musician; I have to perform. I can't give up. I have to be even more courageous. We know that we have a lot of enemies. Not only in Iran. But that doesn't matter.”
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“Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.”
Source : Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.312
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“If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.”
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“One thing I've been doing since I was a little kid and that's score touchdowns so if somebody needs somebody to get in the red zone and do some work, I could probably still do that pretty well.”
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“I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do whatever the hell you want to do, because they don't know what they're talking about. When you love something, and you work really really hard at it, you can do it.”
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“After I tasted success with erotic thrillers, a time came when I was being offered only films belonging to that genre. The industry loves repeating a success formula, and the audience had formed a certain image of mine in their minds.”
