Neneh Cherry (Neneh Mariann Karlsson) Quotes
I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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I've been fortunate over my career to make a little history on the 16th hole at Augusta National.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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I'm a vegetarian and very much active in regards to how I feel about animal rights and protecting animals and giving animals a voice. But at the same time, I appreciate and respect other people's decisions to eat meat. The only thing that I hope is that people are educated, that they're aware, that they're living a conscious lifestyle.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.
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Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.
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Music is a very, very powerful tool that filmmakers use to sway people into emotions that they intend you to feel.
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Sometimes, I feel like my lyrics meander a little bit, and our songs are so big I need to write more words than are necessary.
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There's people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you're compassionate.
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I don't think you can cover a song unless you love it and have a relationship with it. With 'Golden Heart' I felt a sense of responsibility. And when we were recording it in the studio, it felt almost dream-like. Something you might hear if you were in Senegal, with someone singing from the mosque in the morning just as the sun's coming up.
