Merry Clayton Quotes
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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In any human-rights campaign, everybody must do what they can.
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and every day is different. It's all rather chaotic.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
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In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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What women care about are jobs, the economy, the unemployment rate.
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You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
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I think the main thing we can do, whether you agree or not, I don't think that's the real issue, the real issue is this November and there's an election.
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The efforts you make will surely be rewarded. If not, then you are simply not ready to call them efforts.
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The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.
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I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens.
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I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.
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Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.
