Josefa Iloilo Quotes
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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I've followed the lives of great musicians and have learned that you don't have to always write in pain. You have all of your past experiences, feelings, and thoughts that you can turn on when you need them and turn off when you don't.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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I don't want any competition; I've finally made it! I don't want any young bucks knocking me off and taking my job, so stay in school! Stay in school and get a nice job working in an office!
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their judgment tells them it is unwise and their conscience that it is wrong.
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It's possible for people to gain control of every facet of your life.
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Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal.
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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
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I think you have an obligation to be honest.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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Oh you tell me that there's danger to the land you call your ownAnd you watch them build the war machine right beside your homeAnd you tell me that you're ready to go marchin' to the warI know you're set for fighting, but what are you fighting for?
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I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.
