Jennifer Hudson Quotes
I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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Rather than doing the kind of fact-checking that normally goes with a story, you ran with certain stories for not wanting to get beat. There's a pressure that exists in your profession. I would be surprised in any honest exchange that you say that doesn't exist.
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People know that I am a very good author. But they would rather read what I have to say about the next election.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in Cuba also.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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I was raised a Christian. I'd like to think I have Christian values. I don't attend church.
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One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.
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If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
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I will never be a fan of any kind of political correctness: I think it's instant death to creativity.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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I was really scared to stay home alone when I was kid, and I would freak out whenever there was a noise after my parents left.
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'Next to Normal' has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that's got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.
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Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.
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Talented men are not threatened by talented women. They welcome them. And same way with real men.
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I try to do everything to say, 'OK, will my mother like this? Will she be pleased? Will she be proud of that? How do I know she's happy and she's smiling down at me from heaven?' And that's what I try to go by and walk by.
