Patti LaBelle Quotes
I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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My mother's kitchen was built to be the focal point of our house. I got into the kitchen often as a child.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
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All of life is the management of risk, not its elimination.
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When I walked into the room to meet Michael Landon, it was clear he was a big-time star. To be around him was as far from Charles Ingalls as you could get. The hair was the same - no one touched his hair.
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Great brands are meant to be great aggregators.
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I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
