Sharon Jones (Sharon Lafaye Jones) Quotes

Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

Sharon Jones

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• Healed

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• In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.

  

  Edmund White
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Man

• The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Like
  • Slavery
  • Secrets

• I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Experience
  • Theater
  • Cinema

• I really try to take care of myself. I really put forth the effort to make a regimen just a part of my life. When I can't, for instance if I'm in a location someplace and I can't work out because of the schedule of the picture or whatever it is, as much as I normally do when I'm home, I still do something.

  

  Carl Weathers
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I didn't particularly like being objectified.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Like
  • Being
  • Particularly

• I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'

  

  Bailey Chase
  • Life
  • Done
  • Reality

• I remember actually liking a girl in high school who was kind of an outcast and weird, and people made fun of her. I remember hanging out with her, but I was apprehensive about telling anyone I really liked her.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • People
  • School
  • Remember

• I was lucky that I got to do films in between seasons of 'Chuck.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Lucky
  • Got
  • Seasons

• I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

  

  Kanye West
  • Band
  • Always
  • British

• I watch a TV show called 'Shark Tank.' It's one of my favorite TV shows. It's basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing... I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

  

  Jacob Dalton
  • Up
  • Business
  • Clothes

• I have always watched my close friends fall in love, but I never thought it would happen to me.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Fall

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Up
  • Mistakes
  • Back

• I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Team
  • Artist
  • Better

• Motherhood is an amazing feeling, and if you get to relive those special moments while working, it works as an icing on the cake. Kids have always been close to my heart, and working with them is a pleasure for me.

  

  Kajol
  • Heart
  • Kids
  • Feeling

• At the end of the day, you have to sit with the scripts and decide where your heart is.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Day
  • End

• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Justice
  • Opinion
  • Liberty

• 'Starman' was one of my favorite movies growing up.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • Up
  • Growing

• In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

  

  John E. Walker
  • College

• I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Dream
  • Impossible
  • Inspiring

• At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Time
  • Party

• In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • Music
  • Words
  • Audience

• Used as "No matter how you struggle and strive, you never get out of this world alive" on the Babyshambles music-video for the single "The Blinding".

  

  Hank Williams
  • World
  • Music
  • Single

• Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.

  

  Sharon Jones
  • Music
  • Happiness
  • Healed