Mavis Staples Quotes
I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.Mavis Staples
Quotes to Explore
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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
Victor Borge -
No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo.
Nancy Werlin -
I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
Wayne Gretzky -
You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
Hakan Nesser -
Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'
Zig Ziglar -
There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
Kate Winslet
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Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.
Adam Driver -
I don't know if I'm a daredevil, exactly, but I do enjoy a good challenge. It's the only way you grow.
Natalie Dormer -
A woman who laughs is a woman conquered.
Oleg Cassini -
Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
Carl von Clausewitz -
It was a June day when I began my career as a national journalist. I stepped into the Detroit Bureau of the 'Wall Street Journal' and started on what would be a long, varied, rewarding career. I was 23 years old, and the year was 1970.
Walt Mossberg -
When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
Zach LaVine
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Women’s vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men’s confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.
Warren Farrell -
Whatever you want me to play, I'll just do it.
Lindsay Pearce -
If I can do it, anyone can do it.
Dawn Steel -
The N.R.A.'s blessing of restrictions on bump stocks - devices that make semiautomatic weapons fire faster - is designed to pre-empt anything more serious by giving the illusion of action. It substitutes accessory control for actual gun control.
Charlie Sykes -
I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.
Astro -
Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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This was a very intense game. I thought both teams played their hearts out. In a very charged atmosphere, I thought both teams played well at times and not so well at times.
J. M. Roberts -
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
Daniela Bobadilla -
Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I do not believe that science per se is an adequate source of happiness, nor do I think that my own scientific outlook has contributed very greatly to my own happiness, which I attribute to defecating twice a day with unfailing regularity.
Bertrand Russell -
Right now, I have the feeling that I am 2-0 up in the first half of a match that has not finished yet. But I am sure that I will end up winning.
Johan Cruyff -
I won't wear rings and jewelry on the stage because I don't want you looking at my hands. I want you hearing what I'm saying.
Mavis Staples