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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The A.N.C. was established in 1912 and the S.A. Communist Party in 1921, and so there has been an overlapping of membership all along the line.
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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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I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.
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I went and took it to the label, and they loved it, so we put it on the record.
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At first glance it would seem, of course, that no two subjects could possibly be further apart than an underground society of pickup artists and supercomputer chess. What on earth do these two narratives have to do with each other—and what do they have to do with asserting myself as human in the Turing test? The answer is surprising, and it hinges on what chess players call “getting out of book.” We’ll look at what that means in chess and in conversation, how to make it happen, and what the consequences are if you don’t.