Janelle Monae (Janelle Monáe Robinson) Quotes
My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
Quotes to Explore
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.
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Being real is what is important.
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Humour has to have a huge nugget of truth to be funny. You cannot laugh at something unbelievable. Whenever I say something on a lighter note, I am basically unwrapping the truth from a different perspective, and that makes it funny.
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Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.
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In 2012, I launched Andrew Zimmern's Canteen. Inspired by visits to street stalls and markets around the world, Andrew Zimmern's Canteen reflects the intersection of food and travel.
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My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
