Cassie (Cassie Ventura) Quotes
I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.
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Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
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On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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The idea of 'Badlands' was creating a space with sound, which is a really difficult thing to do.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.
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I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.
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As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.
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Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
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I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].
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There is a fine line between passion and gas.
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I never feel like I've been pushed towards a certain thing, but now, at 26, I do feel like I have integrity over my output, you know? There's a fine line between saying, 'You can't tell me what I can and can't do,' and taking on board people's opinions.
