Rickie Lee Jones Quotes
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
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I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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I realized that my mother was at the center of my work, because now that my mother is no longer there, there's nobody left.
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As you get older, things conk out. It's a bit like a car. As long as it's something the mechanics can fix, you can chug on for a few more thousand miles.
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I'm a very musical person.
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My greatest inspiration is memory.
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You have to take care of your guys. If a guy underperforms, you get rid of him. If a guy overperforms, you take care of him.
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The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.
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Lipstick doesn't really suit me. For shoots or when I go out, I use it - but if I use it all the time, it makes me look really old, so I keep it natural with nude or a natural pink. Though I did just do a shoot where they did a big red lip, and it looked amazing.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.
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I travel, I read, I write, I have other lives. But when I have a camera, I know that's my country, my island.
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My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.
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95% of being a success is just showing up on time and being there. I don't know how I knew that when I was younger. You have to stick around for people to remember you.
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Every moment is an invitation to live out of your weakness or to live out of your strength.
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Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
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I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.
