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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage.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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When someone is bullying you, don't let it get to you. I remember my friends in school, someone said something mean to them, and they really let it get to them. And it really affected them. But I would just say try to ignore it as much as possible and just be yourself.
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
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I think everybody knows they have to be vigilant with their children. I don't have anything profound to say on that subject. We all know that we have to watch the children. The question is when does it become absolute paranoia?
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Do not fear the aging of the body for it is the body's way of seeking the root.
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I refused to take no for an answer.
