Patti LaBelle Quotes
When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
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When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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Country radio is much more like a family than any other group of people that I've met.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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If you are playing someone living, it is a different type of judgment. However much work you do, it is not a documentary. There will be things you can't get right, and ultimately, you have to take a leap because - you weren't there.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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I want to be a better writer. I want to learn and grow, to know how to tell stories in a different and more challenging way. I've learned it doesn't get easier each time. It actually gets harder.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the political parties that now so unfortunately divide our country, as their candidate for office.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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One of the writers I most admire is Hilary Mantel because in the middle of her career, she just changed paths entirely and became just a totally different novelist.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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The military community in particular, I think, could always be more supported, especially people who are being processed out of the military and trying to readjust to being civilians.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they would have 100 percent trust or faith in you as an artist. Unfortunately, that's not really the case - it's what sells.
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I don't remember my dreams. I'm one of those weird people. I know there are tricks and things you can do, but I never remember my dreams.
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When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.
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I've seen a lot of shows, but I can't possibly cram in everything that I'd like to, and it's exhausting trying to.
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When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
