Aja Monet Quotes
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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You need your mom and dad to protect you. It means they love you so much.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I think I've been really good at surrounding myself with really talented people. I've picked the right coattails to ride on.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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It's good to get out there and kind of move the body around a little bit, play some hockey, enjoy Nashville as a city and spend some time with family and friends.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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Pain is never permanent.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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I'm not in the luxury-goods business. I sell unique objects. I wish I was in luxury goods because then I could just call the factory and say, 'I need 10,000 more of whatever.' But I can't - because then it's not art, it's something else.
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I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Short sellers sell stock they have borrowed, hoping to buy it back later when its price has fallen.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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But we made a decision based on the fact that we have been up there a long time and that we feel that the seniority is important to the people of Louisiana.
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I really love 'Soapdish.' I wish 'Soapdish' had more of a moment because I felt that that is a really strong, funny movie. Kevin Kline is hilarious in that movie.
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May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.
