Bessie Coleman Quotes
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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Mutineer is the first album of mine without a demo stage.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
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I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
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Obviously any band, any group, someday is not going to be together anymore. That's the truth.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.
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If our kids want to do music, they are going to have to have a hard row to hoe just like any other band under the sun, and they're going to have to want it more than anyone else.
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I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
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I never think about the knockouts. I go into every fight, do my work, and none of that stuff puts pressure on me at all.
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But I guess I like playing flawed guys 'cause it gives a place for the characters to go.
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You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
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The food that's never let me down in life is porridge, especially with milk and maple syrup, which is delicious. Paris isn't a porridge place, but I can buy it in London when I'm there and bring it back with me.
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I remember working on movies like Gettysburg and feeling that Jeff Daniels was kind of a mentor.
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I refused to take no for an answer.
