Etta James Quotes
It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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It always seemed much better to be a writer - a Real Writer - than a successful hack.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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Though I'm not religious in the classical sense I did partake in Passover.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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When there's an adult person who's scaring you, you grow up pretty quickly.
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I invented rock & roll. Jimi Hendrix was my guitar player. James Brown was my vocalist.
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Broadway is amazing because you're performing for such an intimate group of people. You're living in the moment and whatever happens happens, and you go on. You can't say cut and redo it, you have to be on the whole time.
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You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it.
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What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation.
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Develop a benovolent world view;look for the good in the people and circumstances around you.
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Up against another human being one's own procedures take on definition.
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We consider that the lives of all beings are just as precious as our own, and through this we develop a sense of concern for others.
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Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.
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With most British actors, it's amazing. I think they start with the character on the outside and work in.
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A gentleman's first characteristic is that fineness of structure in the body which renders it capable of the most delicate sensation; and of structure in the mind which renders it capable of the most delicate sympathies; one may say simply "fineness of nature.
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I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.
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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
