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 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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When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
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We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
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I've lived in LA for so long, I don't even know what is real and what isn't any more.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.
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I'm singing, you know, because I'm happy and I'm free.
