Joan Armatrading Quotes
So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.

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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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If you've got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.
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I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I think everybody knows my sound because I'm me, you know? But, on your fourth album, I think you've definitely gotta show growth because I definitely don't plan on being one of those cats that fade off. It's always about growing with me; I grew up over the years.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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There is no bigger aphrodisiac than power.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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The physical journey in my films is indicative of the internal journey that my characters take.
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My mother went to a school called 'The Club of the Three Wise Monkeys'. And my grandmother, my father's mother, had a gold charm for her made with the speak no, see no, hear no evil monkeys. And I was fascinated by that charm. I'd sit in my mother's lap and play with it all the time.
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I've been in a New York City-based cabaret for the past seven years called The Citizens Band. It's possibly one of the most brilliant things I've ever been involved with.
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Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
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Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it.
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That's the way both they and I travel sometimes. Pick road at random, and when it's time to pull over, you pull over and hope you can find a place to crash.
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Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.
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I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.
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So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.