Faith Evans Quotes
I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
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Obamacare is going to destroy the elderly by denying care, by even perhaps denying treatment to people who are in catastrophic circumstances.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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We need affordable childcare and paid sick leave so workers don't have to choose between their health and their livelihood.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
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I was born in 1966, at the beginning of the Biafran-Nigerian Civil War, and the war ended after three years. And I was growing up in school, and the federal government didn't want us taught about the history of the war, because they thought it probably would make us generate a new generation of rebels.
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For years the league has thought I've been on drugs. I would have burned out a long time ago if that was true.
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Any time I get to go home is a joyous occasion.
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A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.
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I don't have time to sit up and write songs all day. Maybe one day when my kids get older.
