Ruth Brown Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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The director had come to Madrid to court me.
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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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I'm an urban act.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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Those who had alleged that a million civilians were dying from sanctions were willing, nay eager, to keep those same murderous sanctions if it meant preserving Saddam!
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There's no people like show people.
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I started modelling quite late, at 20. In this industry, girls start when they're barely even 14 or 15.
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There are stories that people don't want to talk about that brought this music through.
