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 remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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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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Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
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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 loved teaching, but every day that I went to work, I carried the worry that I was hurting my kids because I wasn't at home with them.
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Lady Gaga is not a diva, and she's not crazy. She's just an incredibly nice, down-to-earth person who really cares about art and creativity. It's pretty amazing to be able to work with her. I'm pretty grateful for that.
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We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
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May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.
