Aaliyah Quotes
There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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'Badlands' is a very tangible record; a lot of the sounds were actual things: they were pots and pans, and they were rocks, and they were voices,and instruments used in a way to create a landscape of sound.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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I actually love doing comedy!
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One of the defining dynamics of 2008 has been the emerging wave of new, young voters getting involved and storming the gates of the traditional political establishment.
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People have told me that I'm courageous, but I have seen greater courage.
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I've been blessed with pretty strong stamina and healthy genes, so I'd call myself sensible. I've had regular mammograms ever since I found a lump in my breast when I was 30. Thankfully, all was well.
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I'll forget what day it is sometimes. I have to look in my calendar every once in a while.
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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I am lucky that the Western world chooses me to play roles in their movies an television, whatever language it may be.
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God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
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This town is diverse as shit. I like it here a lot.
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At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice, and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
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I'm incredibly optimistic about what individuals can do. We have technology that our grandparents would have given their eye teeth for.
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You don't just magically flip some evolutionary switch somewhere and transmute a quadruped into an upright-walking bipedal human.
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I feel great identification with the developing world.
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My poems... the ones that start out as jokes become these big ponderous things and the ones that start out ponderous devolve into jokes.
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Being on stage taught me how to apply eyeliner.
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Do you really want to know why I'm doing all this goodwill, and why I'm an ambassador for Habitat for Humanity and why I gave a million to [relief efforts for Hurricane] Katrina? It's because I feel guilty about the huge hole in the ozone layer my haircuts created. It's my responsibility to right the wrongs of the Eighties.
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I'm the worst liar alive.
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My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.
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I don't know any people that like watching themselves. I prefer not to.
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There is a bit of acting involved when you get in front of a camera for a video. Even when you perform onstage, you're putting on a show.
