Mavis Staples Quotes
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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I've been a victim in every film I have done so far. It would be nice to play someone who doesn't get killed for once. Then again, I am getting really good at screaming and fake tears.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
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I don't really care how I sound.
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Although I'm not from London originally: I moved down here when I was 16, so it's played a part in my life. It's where I've lived for all that time.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
Nastassja Kinski -
I don't eat any red meat.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
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If the staff lacks policy guidance against which to test decisions, their decisions will be random.
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I think true economic class unhappiness comes from when across the street someone has a new Cadillac and you can't get that.
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Everybody has their own level of doing their music. ... Mine just happened to resonate over the years, in one way and another, with a significant enough number of people so that I could do it professionally.
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Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.
