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.

Janelle Monae

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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.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Reading
  • Books
  • Internet

• We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Respect
  • Democracy
  • Rights

• It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Nature
  • Right
  • Been

• Networking is never easier than when people are coming to you.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • People
  • You
  • Networking

• 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.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • People
  • Children
  • High

• I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Working
  • New
  • January

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• 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.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Women
  • Always
  • Child

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Learn
  • Laugh
  • Grow

• 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.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Different
  • Decision
  • Thought

• 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.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Up
  • Great
  • School

• Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • People
  • Character
  • Years

• 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.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Opportunities
  • Performance

• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Father
  • Me
  • Childhood

• My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

  

  Edith Head
  • Audience
  • Clothes
  • Motto

• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Religion
  • Recognition

• I was in band that played mostly covers for a while, and the bands that we would cover were, like, the alternative rock bands of that day: we did a Jane's Addiction song and a Faith No More song. All the kind of alternative radio of that time, the late '80s, basically.

  

  Jason Mantzoukas
  • Time
  • Song
  • Faith

• Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Work
  • Star

• It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Comedy relieves you. A lot of times, we think we're the only people bothered by certain things. Then you hear a comic say, 'Don't you hate it when...' And it's, 'Oh, my God! Of course!'

  

  Fred Willard
  • People
  • God
  • Hate

• It's really, really hard to make it as a fine-art photographer exclusively.

  

  Jock Sturges
  • Art

• 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.

  

  Janelle Monae
  • Family
  • Food
  • Community