Etta James Quotes
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
Quotes to Explore
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My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her instinct.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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I love what I do so much. I just keep going. Not much can bring me down.
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I thought Jimi Hendrix... was just phenomenal.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.
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We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.
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It's quite difficult to write about female friendship without it seeming to be a very niche subject. It's a difficult balance.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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Shirley Jackson enjoyed notoriety and commercial success within her lifetime, and yet it still hardly seems like enough for a writer so singular. When I meet readers and other writers of my generation, I find that mentioning her is like uttering a holy name.
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Privacy and encryption work, but it's too easy to make a mistake that exposes you.
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Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.
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I shake hands on the first date.
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I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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In the light of the Divine Goodness, it seems to me, though others may think differently, that ingratitude is the most abominable of sins and that it should be detested in the sight of our Creator and Lord by all of His creatures who are capable of enjoying His divine and everlasting glory.
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Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
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In my family we've always been into ethical stuff and recycling.
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We went to church every Sunday. When I was a kid, the only time I sang was around my family.
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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.
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Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
