Delloreese Patricia Early (Della Reese) Quotes
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New York City has no need to move on from 9/11 because, in a sense, it moved on days after, moments after.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.
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The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.
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I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.
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I mean, comedy's hard. If you go back and look at the first season of 'Seinfeld,' it's a work in progress and that's what happens. It just takes time for people to figure each other out, and figure out timing, and to develop creatively with the writers.
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I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.
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In Europe, we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.
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If you want to earn more, learn more.
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Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.
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Perched up high on a rooftop,like a bird I'm having evil thoughts,A black hood covers my faceas death flows through my mind at its own pace.
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He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.
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Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about directing instead of acting, because the best actors see the material they're working on through blinders. They can't see anything but their role. I could never really do that.
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I really love music that's on the periphery of not fitting into a clear genre. I felt like I was constantly being described as something I didn't really feel like I identified with.
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My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
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With the EP 'Listen,' I just wanted to bring back a feeling of appreciation for our women in our community. That feeling of love and being vulnerable.
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A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.
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There is so little one can be certain of these days . . . But finding a hand to hold while we walk this path makes even the most difficult of times better and the strangest of villages home . . . Once I thought my life was over . . . I never thought I would find happiness again . . . And then I met you and it all changed. You made me believe again that good things were possible. I love you.
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Listen to the women. Women say exactly what they want. Who has concrete plans - not macroeconomics but kitchen table economics. Who will change the situation for their families, and help restore the middle class. Women are also sick to death of having their bodies and their lives treated as a political football.
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Most of all, I like to sing my heart out to lyrics that really speak to people.
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Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene.
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I like to play characters that get to do it all - to have a bit of comedy here and a bit of pathos here and a bit of suspense here, that's what's fun.
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I like to sing very much.
