Cassandra Wilson Quotes

I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Cassandra Wilson

• Singing
• Never
• Musician
• Interested
• Choir

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• I had an interest in Scandinavian countries because I'd never seen snow.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Never
  • Interest
  • Snow

• I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Never
  • Explain

• I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Music
  • Christian
  • Never

• We never see ourselves as others see us.

  

  Oliver Hardy
  • Never
  • See
  • Others

• My family never owned a home. We leased.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Family
  • Home
  • Never

• Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Men
  • Never
  • Something

• You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • You
  • Never
  • Lose

• Freedom is never given; it is won.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Freedom
  • Never
  • Given

• My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • World
  • Music
  • Important

• I've never been around pets. I didn't have pets as a child.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Never
  • Child
  • Around

• I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Books

• I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Man
  • Never
  • Religion

• In Malaysia, we have a lot of divas, like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey singers. And they were all so so talented, just very talented. For example, there's this one jazz singer, her name is Sheila Majid, and I was always singing her songs.

  

  Yuna
  • Singing
  • Name
  • Jazz

• I've never worried about life's big questions.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Life
  • Never
  • Questions

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Never
  • Intellectual

• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• You never know how much time you got.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Know
  • Never

• The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• I used to want to be in 'Downton' because I had never been in a period drama, but then I did 'The Suspicions of Mr Whicher' and had to wear one of those frocks and... I didn't feel very comfortable.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Want
  • Never
  • Drama

• I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • True
  • Game
  • Way

• The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Problem

• It's enough to have faith in one aspect of God. You have faith in God without form. That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real. Then hold fast to whichever faith appeals to you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• Sometimes, the girls hug all boys except me, and I just smile, but it hurts.

  

  Niall Horan One Direction
  • Girl
  • Smile
  • Boys

• I was never interested in singing in the church choir or in school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

  

  Cassandra Wilson
  • Singing
  • Never
  • Musician