Patti LaBelle Quotes
I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
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The tribal system from which the Celt never freed himself entirely was the curse of the Celtic race, predooming it to ruin.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink - boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.
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People want to see something that isn't necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
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Composition has almost always been solitary.
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I play a lot of instruments. I write all my own music. I spend hours and hours a day in the studio. I'm a producer. I'm a writer.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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'Slow West' is a film that I did with Michael Fassbender in New Zealand and Scotland. The director was John McLean. It's a film set in the 1800s. I play a young Scottish boy brought up in the royal family. I fall in love with someone who works on our land.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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If there are a couple of adjectives people use to describe me, anger is usually in there. I've never taken that as criticism. It's the way I naturally communicate. But I'm not faux-angry, like Lewis Black, or angry like a gun-toting crazy person. I'm just angry in a mild way - it's not like I'm going to do anything about it.
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I decided to always sing in the back with the chorus and never went up front because I had trouble performing.
