Omara Portuondo Quotes
I continue being young, and every day I learn something new,
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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I am a Westerner of Westerners!
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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I don't write about Google except to insult the company.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I still do the same things, but it's nice. If people recognize you, generally everyone's very respectful, very lovely, but I wonder what it's like for real celebrities.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It’s the South — the deep, deep South, at that, so, there’s a still a lot of like underlying discrimination there. Growing up in it — or being born into it — you don’t know it. But once you become educated on the history of where I’m from, you start to pick out certain things. Racism, in Alabama right now, is more nuanced than it was back then. It’s more covert and disguised very well.
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I continue being young, and every day I learn something new,
