August Alsina Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I believe that the presidential term should be limited.
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I think the Bush Administration was bound and determined on regime change, and we will be paying the price of that for some time to come.
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No use to fall down on my knees and beg for mercy's sake. Nothing I counted mine, out of my life, is mine to take...
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Love yourself and learn to love this thing called life.
