Amelia Gray Quotes
Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.
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The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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I never let anything stop me from doing what I want to do.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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I'm the youngest of five girls, and I don't know about you, but it's really hard to be heard when you have five women. I've always been this loud and over the top as a person because I just want to be heard.
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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'Float On' was a fine song, but I was still writing the lyrics on the last day we were working on it and deciding if it was something we wanted to put on the record.
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Well, actually, I manage a couple of stock portfolios or funds or whatever you want to call 'em, and I think I've done relatively well with them.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the reason someone is great.
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I'm still going to sing these songs because trap is a type of music very popular in the streets, and people want to hear it.
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Everybody always talks about how they can't wait until they turn 18, so they can go out on their own and get their own apartment, and I'm like, 'I want to be with Mom!' I have it good.
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You have girls that sing about guys ain't paying their bills and men are this and men are that and I write about women who want to go out for free, they don't want to pay for the dinner, they try to get over, they wanna leave.
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So they've actually - it's not that her character is a singer, but she had ambition to do that at an earlier time in her life. So I've actually sung two or three times now on the show.
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I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.
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If something's important to you, you make time for it.
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Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my face in it.
