Oleta Adams Quotes

I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

Oleta Adams

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• I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.

  

  Barry White
  • Looking
  • Babies
  • Trip

• In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.

  

  B. B. King
  • Play
  • Church
  • Taught

• I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Understand

• I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Man
  • City
  • New York

• I read everything and anything. I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • Everything

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Car
  • Favorite

• I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Believe
  • Style
  • Better

• I always draw from things around me that people around me have gone through... The story that could be taken really literally is not from my life exactly. But bits and pieces are, and the sentiment behind it is.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Life
  • Taken

• The world is my workshop. It is not my home.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • World
  • Home
  • Workshop

• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Soul
  • Someone
  • Save

• The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Life
  • Moon
  • Solar

• When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Work
  • Done
  • Waiting

• There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Young

• Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Money

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• I believe in that gladiatorial mind-set. I love it.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • I Believe

• If there were no human nature, then there would be nothing for deliberate effort to be applied to. If there were no deliberate effort, then human nature would not be able to beautify itself.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Nature
  • Effort
  • Human Nature

• I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Earth
  • Religion

• I just figured it out when I was approaching the age where teenagers forced to make major life decisions and I just went with my heart, which is that I love acting, and was lucky enough to kind of pursue that and for it to work out so far.

  

  Nell Hudson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Heart

• Why do I love Roald Dahl? His voice, more than anything. It's irreproducible. It's so musical, and it's funny even when it's not trying to be, which is most of the time.

  

  Jesse Andrews
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Why

• In my college years, I would retreat to our summer house for two weeks in June to read a novel a day. How exciting it was, after pouring my coffee and making myself comfortable on the porch, to open the next book on the roster, read the first sentences, and find myself on the platform of a train station.

  

  Amor Towles
  • Book
  • House
  • College

• I've been fortunate to live a very full professional life. Most of it has happened through God's graciousness and not from something I've imagined.

  

  Oleta Adams
  • Life
  • God
  • Live