Brittany Howard Quotes
I probably bring four dresses on the road and rotate those. I always wear something light when I go onstage because I move around a whole lot. It's a sweaty business.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
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The most amazing gift about being a novelist is that you get to pursue your curiosity every day.
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Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra.
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Men who had poetry in their soul come silently into the world and live quietly down the years, and yet when they are gone no moon in the sky is lucid enough to compare with the light they shed when they are among the living.
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I learned so much about playing and touring being on the road and in the studio with Jeff, but I'd always played a lot of gigs in Seattle even prior to joining the Fusion.
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I probably bring four dresses on the road and rotate those. I always wear something light when I go onstage because I move around a whole lot. It's a sweaty business.
