Merry Clayton Quotes
My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.
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A lot of recent comic book adaptations have gone two ways: either they're striving for some kind of realism, like 'Iron Man' or 'The Dark Knight,' or they're very stylised and gritty, like 'Sin City' and '300.'
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.
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Golf was my vehicle to competition, and I can't play if I can't compete.
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The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.
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If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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Often I choose characters who express not my best self, but the sides of me I haven't developed or haven't expressed.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
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I love musk oil. There's something about musk that makes it memorable without being overpowering.
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I seek truth over a lie; I seek justice over injustice; I seek righteousness over the rewards of evildoers, and I love Allah more than I love the state.
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In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.
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Learning implies a mind that doesn't know.
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The mind passes in an instant from east to west; and all the great incorporeal things resemble these very closely in speed.
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If you want to be that world champion, you have to be willing to beat anybody on this planet - no strings attached.
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I love to win, honestly... If you love to win, you should say it. And honestly, I'm hooked on it.
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When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
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I never know what I'm going to put on the canvas. The canvas paints itself. I'm just the middleman.
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My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.
