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Ben E. King

"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

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"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

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"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."

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Donna Grant

"You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today."

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Donna Grant

"You can't plan for feelings. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it'll be okay anyway."

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Donna Grant

"I like parties, but I'm shy, and I often find myself standing around, feeling awkward."

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Donna Grant

"We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings."

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Donna Grant

"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

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Donna Grant

"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."

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Donna Grant

"I always have this feeling that I'm losing everything, so I'm a real saver."

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Donna Grant

"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."

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Donna Grant

"Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before."

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Ben E. King
"Those things don't happen today. I feel sorry for the kids in the industry today. They have on sunglasses, eat caviar in jet planes, but they'll never know the true feeling that we did."

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Ben E. King
"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."

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Ben E. King
"The movie is actually from a book by Stephen King called The Body. When they were gonna put it to a motion picture, they found the story was a bit too strong for the title The Body, based on a young kid's movie. It would be too heavy."

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Ben E. King
"He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies."

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Ben E. King
"It doesn't take me long to write songs."

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Ben E. King
"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on."

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Ben E. King
"At that time, we were in charge. We didn't ask. We just did. We just did what was in our heart."

Time

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Ben E. King
"I still think my whole career was accidental. I didn't pursue it. I feel like I'm cheating sometimes."

Career

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Ben E. King
"It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing."

Life

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Ben E. King
"You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that."

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