Brittany Howard Quotes

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

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• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Control
  • Day
  • Sleep

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Plan

• It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Up
  • Great
  • Country

• You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • Want
  • Competition
  • Lose

• Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Want
  • Japanese
  • Planes

• People trash talk me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Me
  • Talk

• I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

  

  Pat Cash
  • You
  • Tennis
  • McDonald

• To anybody who says to me, 'I'm in character,' I say, 'You should be in an asylum.' If you don't know that you're pretending, then you should really seek medical help. I don't have patience for that stuff.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Character
  • Help
  • Patience

• Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Team

• I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wish

• I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • My Life

• Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Things

• I was born a singer. I need to do that.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Born
  • Need
  • Singer

• The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Different
  • Game
  • Football

• When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • You
  • Trouble
  • Bores

• It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • People
  • Nature
  • Strong

• It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.

  

  Genesis Rodriguez
  • People
  • Important
  • American

• I needed a break, and going to culinary school turned a lightbulb on that I didn't have to make music. The people in the music business forget that not only is there an entire world of people out there who do not care what we do, we are not creating the wheel.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.

  

  B. B. King
  • Start
  • Street
  • Hometown

• It would grant me much relief to learn your sons were engaged matrimonially to other white men if I was previously faced with the spectre of those same sons wedding negro women, slave or free, and siring negro sons that could presume to claim inheritance of your namesakes and property, or worse, equality with your purer grandchildren.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Music
  • Different