Samantha Mumba Quotes
There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
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The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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When I am cast in a movie where I feel that the woman's part is more interesting, I usually start thinking about Spencer Tracy and Fred Astaire. They seem to be the most clear actors when working with women.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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There are no free lunches in life. You have to earn it. I am paying my dues. People have accused me of having it easy because I am Amitabh Bachchan's son. Yes, I am his son, and I've never run away from it. I work hard to make him proud.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.
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There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.
