Etta James Quotes
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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I want to see what I look like when I'm old - I'm curious where that's going to take me.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon.
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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My mother was adorable, a great giggler. My father was very strong and could be quite frightening.
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I've always been a strong feminist and felt that the image of models was detrimental to women. That whole thing really bothered me. I would think about quitting about once a week.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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Giving the control over powerful AI to the highest bidder is unlikely to lead to the best world we can imagine.
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My favorite actor is - I can't believe I'm saying this - is Meagan Good. I've met her in person.
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When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.
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Running to do a job as important as the governor's shouldn't be easy; it should take a lot of work, and I'm out there giving my best every day.
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When we have attained success, we see how inferior it is to the hope, yearning and enthusiasm with which we started forth in life’s morning.
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I'm quite happy with the music carrying on. I've never been one to clamor for fame. It just got dumped in my lap. The ambition is definitely not fame. The ambition is to be creative.
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It's thrilling to be onstage and to not know, literally, what the next moment is going to bring. To just submit to the not-knowing-ness of it.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list.
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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
