Jamelia Quotes
There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Apparently 'The Office' plays in Brazil. Who would've thought that Brazilians would identify with a bunch of pasty white Scrantonians in a paper company? But the Brazilians I've met have really loved the show.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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My father is an amazing person.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.
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To become a mother is to learn a whole language - to relearn it, perhaps, as it was the tongue to which we were born - and hence gain entrance to a forgotten world of comprehension.
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So many actors started on soap operas. So yeah, I'd graduated Julliard and done some theater. I've done a few guest spots on TV but nothing that long-term. I did a little 'E.R.' back when it was on, and a pilot for 'Cold Case.'
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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I heard one time that the Superman glyph is the second or third most recognizable symbol on Earth after the Christian cross.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
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To see the gods dispelled in mid-air and dissolve like clouds is one of the great human experiences. It is not as if they had gone over the horizon to disappear for a time; nor as if they had been overcome by other gods of greater power and profounder knowledge. It is simply that they came to nothing.
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I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.
