Etta James Quotes
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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If I start thinking, 'Is this movie going to open? Is this movie going to do well?' I'm not focusing on the job. The job is to make a good movie.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I wasn't the most prodigiously talented cricketer in Karnataka, let alone India. Some of my team-mates in my school team could hit the ball cleaner than I do. I had to work through that lack of talent, so to speak, that lack of natural flair. Runs never came easy for me.
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We are all terminal.
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I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
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I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
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I did not realise that I was so loved. It can't just be for the films. I must have done something else, but I can't remember what.
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I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?
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I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege.
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I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
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People trust I know what I'm doing. I have lots of credibility. I've had years of learning. I know and understand my business.
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
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Problems arise in that one has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself.
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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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I never think of the future. I never imagine what comes next.
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We have been brainwashed into craving a diet that is killing us. What we believe tastes good is generally what we have been socially conditioned to enjoy.
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When everything is perfectly orderly and understandable, there has to be one thing that puts everything into question.
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The dialogue and conversation about food is everywhere - television, chat rooms, social media outlets and among everyday conversations.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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Hawkey - Hawkey Mr. Fawkes of Farnley Hall, North Yorkshire, close friend of Turner - come here - come here! Look at this thunderstorm! Isn't it grand? - Isn't it wonderful? - Isn't it sublime?. .There, Hawkey; in two years you will see this again, and call it 'Hannibal Crossing the Alps'.
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The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
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The two things you can't fake are good food and good music.
