#kin

I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#any #athlete #being #being prepared #coach

When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?' ↗

— Damian Lewis

#all day #america #american #american accent #comes

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me. ↗

— John Legend

#busy #guess #high #high school #i

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. ↗

— John Legend

#best #hard #make #making #music

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name. ↗

— John Legend

#friends #grew #into #john #kind

My first album, 'Get Lifted,' was a hip-hop soul album that had some of its roots in the church, as far as the sonic choices, in the way that I sing and write songs. I have always had that as part of my background and part of my influence when I am making music. ↗

— John Legend

#always #am #as far as #background #choices

Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. ↗

— John Legend

#biographies #bit #booker #civil #civil rights

Well, what's interesting, I try not to think about the radio when I'm writing a song. I want people to love the song, and that means it might not be exactly thinking about the radio, but it's thinking about your audience and saying, 'I want people to like this song after it's done.' ↗

— John Legend

#after #audience #done #exactly #i

I believe that Orthodoxy has been thinking lately, and despite other impressions, that we can't have full sacramental communion if we don't first have a fundamental agreement on the question of the primacy, that still isn't there. ↗

— Karl Lehmann

#been #believe #communion #despite #first

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended