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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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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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'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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I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
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Doing 'Kingsman' is such hard work. It's so physical and demanding.
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I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties.
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Smart companies fail because they do everything right. They cater to high-profit-margin customers and ignore the low end of the market, where disruptive innovations emerge from.
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Health care should be a right; it should never be a privilege. We should have Medicare for all in this country.
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The desire for reinvention seems to arise most often when companies hear the siren call of synergy and start to expand beyond their core businesses.
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I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.
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I love those adult writers with the pranking ethos, [Don] DeLillo and [Donald] Barthelme and David Foster Wallace. I don't see any reason not to bring those kinds of influences to bear on books for children.
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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.
