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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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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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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The more and more I got into writing, the harder and harder it became for me. I still love it, but it became much more problematic than I thought it would be.
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You can do your job and be yourself and be comfortable all at the same time!
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I have a great deal of sympathy for reluctant readers because I was one. I would do anything to avoid reading. In my case, it wasn't until I was 13 and discovered the 'Lord of the Rings' that I learned to love reading.
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I was always an early riser. Happy the man who is! Every morning day comes to him with a virgin's love, full of bloom and freshness. The youth of nature is contagious, like the gladness of a happy child.
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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We played them good, we had them going. We've got to keep the pressure on, punish them. We didn't do that. I think it was a little bit of jitters, maybe.
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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.'
