M.C. Brockert (Teena Marie) Quotes
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.
Quotes to Explore
-
We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.
-
In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium.
-
But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
-
It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
-
I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
-
Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
-
When your focus is social change and not financial change, why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.
-
Facts are, directors are not thinking of me; they think I only act in my films, because they're stupid. Or they think I'm a control freak, that I will try to, I don't know, pimp their scripts and just change everything, which I will never do.
-
Oh, I have to say Romana; she was much more fun to do but I did enjoy the Princess when she was turning bad.
-
French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
-
Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
-
The only model to follow is pure Islam.
-
I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
-
Basically, me and Ed Sheeran are kind of Twitter friends – well, I say that. He probably just thinks I'm weird.
-
I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.
-
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
-
I would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
-
A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.
-
Diamonds are supposed to be a girl's best friend but it's impossible to know for sure where they have come from so I find it is safer just to avoid them altogether.
-
When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.
-
The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.
-
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty.
-
Any time you talk to anyone about something that they love, they're, like, their most beautiful. It's a cool gift to get to talk to people about what they love.
-
I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.
