Aaliyah Quotes
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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Send me one hundred francs on our future deals, otherwise I will disappear in a cataclysm.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don't need to believe it.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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Mike Tyson would have been a good sparring partner for me and Muhammad Ali because Tyson was a fast fighter and he could punch and throw good combinations.
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.
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There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.
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A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers.
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I think I've written about family and things in 'Taipei' which could be considered Asian culture.
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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be.
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When people use your brand name as a verb, that is remarkable.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
