Fleur East Quotes
My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
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I think when you suffer a tremendous loss, everybody needs love and support in tangible ways. And that's what people have done for us.
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When I was younger, I thought about retiring.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.
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I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'
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Manners make the world work. They're not only based on kindness but also efficiency. When people know what to do, the world is smoother. When no one knows what to do, it's chaos.
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In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!
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The comforts of life as a fugitive. Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.
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My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
