Merry Clayton Quotes
I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
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I am not ready to fit into the mould of commercial cinema.
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I used to get butterflies. Now we're always ready to hit the stage and rock out.
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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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We were ready to launch Barry White, but the record company wouldn't put it out. Said it wouldn't sell.
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If our hearts are ready for anything, we will spontaneously reach out when others are hurting. Living in an ethical way can attune us to the pain and needs of others, but when our hearts are open and awake, we care instinctively.
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Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
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The violence associated with the A.N.C. is minimal, infinitesimal next to the violence of the apartheid regime.
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.
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I feel like I've really earnt my stripes - I feel ready to play a lead. I would just love to prove I'm good enough to carry a project.
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I feel I am a little bit older. Reckon I will start growing a beard next week.
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I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.
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I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.
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There is no shame being beaten by such a great player, Sachin is perhaps only next to the Don
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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I find it quite difficult to think that there's, you know, about 20 million people listening to my album that I wrote very selfishly to get over a breakup. I didn't write it being that it's going to be a hit.
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The sort of movies I make are not ones that can easily be sold upfront, so I have to make them and prove their mettle before I can sell them.
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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.
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I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.
