Melissa Etheridge Quotes
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I thought that I'd have a briefcase-and-power-suit career.
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We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.
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I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.
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Over my career, I've reinvented myself numerous times. I covered the Pentagon, the State Department, and the CIA. I wrote about labor wars, trade wars and real wars. I chronicled a nuclear plant meltdown and the defeat of Communism. I co-founded a couple of media businesses.
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I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.
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I've had more ups than downs in my career. All you can do is keep working. You still have to take enjoyment out of what you're doing, and things will turn, and my smile has always been there. In good moments and bad.
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T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
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I've gotten to do a lot of stuff, traveled, worked hard at my career.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.
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We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it.
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Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
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I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
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Initially, I wanted to do films with A-list actors when I was struggling. I was hoping that I could also get that platform where I'm launched with Shah Rukh Khan, Salman Khan or Aamir Khan... and with them my career could also start, but it didn't happen. And then came 'Queen.'
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When I started my career, I saw that everybody was using Twitter.
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I've had such an inspiring and formative journey in my career.
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I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
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I won't mention names, but in my career, the most talented people invariably are the easiest and nicest to get along with.
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I thought there might be a career in acting because I had other friends doing it.
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When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.
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I've never flown a kite.
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The subject and the reality of having children came at the height of my career.
