Melissa Manchester Quotes

You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

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• I think a lot of people have a problem with the fact that I've adopted an African child, a child who has a different color skin than I do.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
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• All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Guess

• My mum was a quintessential businesswoman. She taught me problem – solving. She can solve any problem.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
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• Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • People
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• The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

  

  Faye Wattleton
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• No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

  

  James Joyce
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• I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.

  

  Hank Williams
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• So now the devil's in my soul.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Soul
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• To each individual the world will take on a different connotation of meaning-the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • World
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• Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more.

  

  Yasmin Le Bon
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• There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

  

  Curtis Hanson
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• It takes some of us a lifetime to learn that Christ, our Good Shepherd, knows exactly what He is doing with us. He understands us perfectly.

  

  W. Phillip Keller
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• It wasn't too pretty in Florida, but it was spring training and you're just trying to work on your stuff. You come to this part of the season and now you have to execute. It's what I did. I just threw it where it needed to be.

  

  Chris Smith
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• The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
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• You know, somebody mentioned that I was sort of a jazz-pop singer. And I'm thrilled that somebody would find that, at last, in my presentation, because it's such a part of where I live.

  

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