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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.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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Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again.
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I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.
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I know what it's like to access the privilege of a ZIP Code but also be born in one that could have destined me to something else.
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The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
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You'll often hear the left lecture about the importance of dissent in a free society.
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I refused to take no for an answer.
