Alyssa Edwards Quotes
Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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There are no regions in the world as reciprocally integrated as Latin America and the Caribbean, and Europe.
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If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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One of the pillars of 'Cyrano' is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating, among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us.
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Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.
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Learn from the masses, and then teach them.
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I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.
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I never forbid myself anything.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'.
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Don't be anything you're not. Be yourself. And people will either celebrate that or say, 'It's not for me.'
