Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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The key, of course, is to stay away from the losing years.
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I married beneath me, all women do.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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Business today consists in persuading crowds.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge.
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Detroit is full of talent.
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I think the one film that I could watch over and over and over again - and I have - is 'Man on Fire.'
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How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
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When I'm singing or on stage, I become complete all of a sudden. I'm whole. I don't think I've really had that in so many other things in my life.
