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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
Gail Devers -
I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.
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I'm active even on bad days; it's tough to pin me down. People ask me if I'm a morning or night person. I'm an all-the-time person. I like drinking coffee, but I do it with lots of milk because my energy levels are high even without caffeine. You could call me Obelix, except I don't have a belly.
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I am glad I have given my family the life I wanted for them. That is my responsibility.
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The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).
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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.
