Etta James Quotes
I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I spent the first five years of my life in Punjab, India, and then moved to New York.
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
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I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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I have this dream of what I ultimately want my life to be like, and it involves a lot of quaint activities like cooking and canoeing and camping and hiking.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I've been a massive obsessive about jazz singers all my life.
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My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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I always trained hard in my life to win the title, and I will train twice as hard to stay at the top.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.
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I certainly wouldn't define myself as a northerner. I'm not even really sure what that means. I've lived in London for 50 years. I wasn't born here, but I have spent most of my life here. So I don't make much of it, to be honest. I'm just myself.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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I describe a soulmate as a 'soul-nurturing mate' - someone who nurtures your soul - thereby promoting insight and growth.
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I've gone through so much in my life. I should have been dead a long time ago, but I am still here, and I'm the happiest I've ever been.
