Bill Medley Quotes
For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
Quotes to Explore
-
Sometimes you've got to know when it's time to leave the party.
-
I kind of just want to look like a cool French girl in the Sixties most of the time. Or TLC.
-
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
-
It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
-
I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.
-
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
-
I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
-
If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
-
There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
-
Looking after a disabled child pushes you to the limits of what you can cope with... physically, emotionally. It's because there's this baby, this child that you love more than you can possibly imagine, in some way more than a normal child because you worry about them 24 hours a day. But at the same time you are so, so proud of them.
-
My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
-
If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like this sadness that it's over, that your time with these characters is finished. There's almost like an achy feeling that I have when I go to a movie that I love and it ends.
-
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
-
I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
-
I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.
-
When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.
-
Miz and I have known each other for a long time, and we really know, like, how to get at each other's nerves.
-
The only time I eat alone is if I'm really tired or upset about something or on the phone to one of my friends, when it's easier to be alone. But you can't be too wrapped up in yourself... it starts making you look a little bit prima donna.
-
I love the way Charlize Theron and Kate Moss dress.
-
That's what makes a character interesting from an actor's perspective - the more screwed up, the better.
-
The media love coarse debate because coarse debate drives ratings and ratings generate profits. Unless the TV producer happens to be William Shakespeare, an argument is more interesting than a soliloquy - and there will never be a shortage of people willing to argue on TV.
-
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
-
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
-
For Bobby and I to sing R&B and sound black was probably the stupidest thing we could do. White radio stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were black. Black stations wouldn't play us because they thought we were white. Any time you break ground, you go against the grain.
