Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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Together, often by unanimous vote, the council has worked quickly to get positive results.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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Reminded of what a diet really is, I began eating more slowly, being more conscious of when I was full. I started to enjoy my buckwheat bread with goat cheese and pureed butternut-squash soup as a response to real hunger.
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I think that most people don't even know that I do other things. They think that Homer is all that I do.
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Out of the 72 kids that I went to high school with, I still talk to 25 of them on a fairly regular basis. Seven of my classmates live in L.A., and five of them are in the entertainment business, and we constantly talk and play fantasy football together.
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People realised this is real pollution; it is not fog. Now everyone has to face the data and come out of their comfort zone.
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'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.
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The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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I've met Michael Keaton, John Favreau, Marisa Tomei - they're all really amazing people and really, really professional. I've learned so much from just watching them operate on set.
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I think that's why often people in creative fields can feel so alone is because there's a constant third eye, that constant watcher.
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People going into the cities for the opportunities and the towns are getting older, no young people.
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Every friendship goes through ups and downs. Dysfunctional patterns set in; external situations cause internal friction; you grow apart and then bounce back together.
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I stared at the creased map on my wall, the thin green line connecting all the places I had read about. There they were, all the cities of my imaginary future, held together with tape and marker and pins. In six months, a lot had changed. There was no thin green line that could lead me to my future anymore. Just a girl.
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Every idea has its time.
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I'm not in retirement. I just don't want to work so much, and I don't get that many offers any more.
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Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
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Music is an art form that I love dearly, and it's allowed me to bring so many people together and meet so many people.
