Patti LaBelle Quotes
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent access to it declined. I sensed resistances around me. I was married; I lived in a suburb; I had small children.
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Enjoy doing nothing, and you can enjoy doing anything. Enjoy having nothing, and you can enjoy whatever you have.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small just to make me feel bigger.
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If I'm going to give up the single life, it better be good - because I'm having fun!
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Besides what I do, I love fishing; I love bringing my children to the forest, getting outdoors in nature. Get outside, people! Stop looking at screens.
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
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I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
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So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.
