Ella McMahon (Ella Eyre) Quotes

My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

Ella McMahon

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• I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.

  

  Sam Trammell
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• What honour have we got left, when nobody is listening to us?

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
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• I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.

  

  Action Bronson
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• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
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• Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.

  

  Barry Goldwater
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• I love working with kids, talking with them and listening to them. I always encourage kids to reach beyond their dreams. Don't try to be like me. Be better than me.

  

  Florence Griffith Joyner
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• I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Stop
  • Learning
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• I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Life
  • Important
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• Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Listening

• My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Music
  • Reading
  • Listening

• I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.

  

  Ian MacKaye
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• I love writing songs. I love doing my radio show and talking to the fans and listening to what they have to say, but there's a certain responsibility that comes along with being given the gift of music. I take that seriously, but at the same time I try to use it to do something that makes a difference in a positive way.

  

  Randy Owen
  • Time
  • Music
  • Writing

• Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.

  

  Danger Mouse
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  • Listening
  • Years

• There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

  

  Ted Cruz
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  • Women
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• I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.

  

  Dane Cook
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  • Truth
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• I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
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  • Yoga
  • Cinema

• I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Great
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• I think you think that phone sex is about getting the caller off, but it's about keeping the caller on. It's about leading with your personality and making sure that they're still listening to you and that they're still interested in you because you cannot make money when they hang up.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• I've been going to the same barber the last few years, and we have great chats whenever I'm in the chair. He'll ask: 'How you doing? How's the training going?' Just ordinary, obvious things, but then, like you do with your barber, you start talking about personal stuff.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Great
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  • Same

• I'm black, so I should be able to play a 'thug?' No. Hello. Open your mind. I'm a person that believes in breaking barriers.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Mind
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• The only things you learn are the things you tame.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Things
  • Learn
  • Tame

• My background was always more soulful pop. I was named after Ella Fitzgerald, and when I was a kid, I was listening to Lauryn Hill, Etta James, Joss Stone. For me, it was always about the voice.

  

  Ella McMahon
  • Listening