Delloreese Patricia Early (Della Reese) Quotes
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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In some ways, technology keeps on enhancing us, and we embrace it.
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There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Companies are hiring cosplayers to be promotional spokes models for them. There are cosplayers trying to develop a cult following even though they've only been cosplaying for less than a year or two. It's all about the social media or Facebook likes.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
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My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
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I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.
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I never had a backup plan. I felt like if I had a backup plan, it was like saying to the universe that I didn't believe in myself.
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I've had great luck with directors. I've worked with all the great ones.
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There's evidence of a social decline in direct proportion to technology and the industrialization of the motion picture industry.
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People think that lemon is good for the voice, but it dries it out.
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I also work with the spirituality of people.
