Morgan Brittany Quotes
I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.
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I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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In a city like New York, any night can be completely different, even in a subtle way.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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Everybody in America who didn't come over the Bering Strait ice bridge stole his land from somebody else.
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I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.
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By the grace of God, my parents were fantastic. We were a very normal family, and we have had a very middle-class Indian upbringing. We were never made to realise who we were or that my father and mother were huge stars - it was a very normal house, and I'd like my daughter to have the same thing.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.
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My dad is my biggest source of inspiration. He's a lawyer, and when he'd get home, we always sat down and listened to music.
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It's very important, at least for me and for Cynthia, to get outside input.
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You want your kids to grow with the right culture and values, and the toughest part would be finding out how to instill those values in your kids.
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People see my modelling and see me getting papped all the time and don't really get to see me because I don't do much TV or whatever.
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When I'm working on something, even when I don't know exactly where it's going, I have a sense of what I'd like to make. So maybe doing things right is following that sense even when I stop trusting myself. The rightness is in the process, even if it doesn't match up with my plans.
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God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you're able to pay off your house. That's God shifting things in your favor.
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A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.
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I seek as much as I can to mitigate risk.
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I had no real education because I was in and out of schools so I decided that I would completely change my look, change my image, change my name and move to New York.
