Aaliyah Quotes
I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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I'll never totally get away from being who I am, which first, to many, is the daughter of Nat King Cole, which became even more intensified with the 'Unforgettable' album.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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The subculture of felons is in great vogue among adolescents. Enron, WorldCom, Tyco, and so forth allow us Republicans to say to America's young people, 'We be thugs.' The GOP may capture the youth vote at last.
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It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Do the story in the way it really demands to be done, which may mean using several different styles or only one style; but it's still about respecting the story.
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Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.
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I like the big smoky eyes look, and I always do my eyes first when I'm putting on my make-up.
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All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light. There was a time when I got hot under the collar if the critics said I had nothing new to say. Now I realise that they had a point. My field is the self-evident. Everything I say is obvious, although I like to think that some of the obvious things I have said were not so obvious until I said them.
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Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.
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I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
