Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.
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I'm against a signature look, as that can be very outdating. But having said that, I also know my best qualities, so I'm not going to foolhardily give away my power.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying, 'This is fiction.'
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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My father had very little formal education.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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For people who think of chicken as the meat choice of those-who-don't-really-like-meat, brining a bird will be a revelation.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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The spiritual and emotional aspects of art are perhaps their most important qualities.
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I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
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The energy in a comedy is very serious. Somebody said comedy is a tragedy plus time. When you have a tragedy, for example, like this, like, 'We're going to die,' and you have time, like, five hours to die, it becomes a comedy.
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I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.
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You have to put time into the art to do it, and you have to know that what you'll get out of it is not a financial or a fame thing. It'll just be the pleasure of being an artist. And I'm cool with that.
