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.
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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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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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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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In the case of Marilyn and John Kennedy, I think they did affect change.
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It's such a challenge to play a good guy - it's hard to be believable.
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It is high time to declare an end to the breastfeeding dictatorship that is drowning women in guilt and worry just when they most need support: after the birth of a child.
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I'm a DJ, and I live in Williamsburg, and I run an independent record company.
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Growing up, I didn't come from a musical family. Neither of my parents played an instrument, sang out loud, or listened to the radio with frequency. The record collection in the living room was only about 2 feet long - and that included 4 solid inches of Neil Diamond and Herb Alpert.
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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.
