Rickey Medlocke Quotes
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I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.
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She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
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Your life, your circumstances change, and you have to continue to grow as a person, and once you have means and opportunity, you have to make different choices to protect what you have.
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it.
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At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me.
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People know about the Klan and the overt racism, but the killing of one's soul little by little, day after day, is a lot worse than someone coming in your house and lynching you.
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I like most any place if I have Internet access.
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I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usually have something.
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In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can't argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
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I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.
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I guess I've dated smart guys, I've dated dumb guys, hot guys.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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The main engagement of the writer is towards truthfulness; therefore he must keep his mind and his judgement free.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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Gaze into the fire, into the clouds, and as soon as the inner voices begin to speak... surrender to them. Don't ask first whether it's permitted, or would please your teachers or father or some god. You will ruin yourself if you do that.
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Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
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Having seen a non-market economy, I suddenly understood much better what I liked about a market economy.
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I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
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There are no uncriminal crimes.
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The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going.
