Sharon Jones (Sharon Lafaye Jones) Quotes
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With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.
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Turns out you have a really fun time if you go to work every day and focus on being silly and funny and happy!
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You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.
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I do get free stuff.
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There have been times I've planted stuff in songs where four years later I'll be singing it from a subconscious, kind of chameleon little lizard mind... and at a certain moment, all of a sudden, I'll hear a line from a different vantage point and it'll change its meaning. It's something I wrote but it changed because I did.
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The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
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Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy hour.
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I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
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If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
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I was happy to kind of always scoot under the radar.
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I love singing. I love singing at home.
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Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
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I'm not in search of records like some other players. If I can score between 15 and 20 goals each season, I will be very happy.
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I thought, 'Wow, if we could have a career that was five or six years long, that would be fantastic.' And, of course, never even thinking it would still be something I'd be doing in 45 years.
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If my son would only listen to my advice, he would lead a perfect life. I'll still be saying that to him when I'm 75. I like to imagine that I have the control, but he's a teenager, so that never really happens.
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
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You never watch movies the same as you do when you're a kid, ever again.
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
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I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.
