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.
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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.
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It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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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.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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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.
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People trash talk me.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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I was born a singer. I need to do that.
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The sound of a golf game is very different than the sound of a football game.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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At graduate school in 1999, I finally had the chance to examine why I believe what I believe. I realised that I'd had no period in my life where I'd consciously tried to develop my own theology.
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We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
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When it comes to the world around us, is there any choice but to explore?
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I took theatre and stuff in college, then I took a bunch of different acting classes here in L.A. Sometimes when I have a hard audition, I'll call my acting coach and he'll come help me. I actually get more nervous in acting class than I do at an actual audition. It's actually a really great way to get over your nerves.
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There are a lot of limitations and stigmas that are placed on young actors, specifically young black actors.
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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.
