Normani Kordei Hamilton (Normani) Quotes

We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

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• One of my biggest inspirations was Alanis Morissette's 'Jagged Little Pill.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Biggest
  • Inspirations
  • Pill

• Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Time
  • Mother

• The town where I grew up has a zip code of E-I-E-I-O.

  

  Martin Mull
  • Up
  • Grew Up
  • Grew

• I grew up where my parents would literally shove me in the car rather than have to say hello to a neighbor.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Car

• My sister and I are both diagnosed with second-hand smoke syndromes. We have never smoked, but we grew up with second-hand smoke our entire lives.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Up
  • Hand
  • Hands

• I grew up on a mixed diet of mass and class, and I still read that way. I hate it when people apologize for what they read. Some bestsellers aren't exactly literary. So what? They're fun and rip-roaring, Who instituted the book police and why do we have to answer them? Grrrrr!

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Class
  • Grew Up
  • Diet

• He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Punished
  • Performed
  • Scapegoat

• I grew up loving a lot of English bands, ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.

  

  Brandon Flowers The Killers
  • English
  • Bands
  • Grew Up

• I'm always pulling and really feeding off of my inspirations. I think most musicians do.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Musicians
  • Pulling
  • Inspirations

• My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

  

  Joe Satriani Chickenfoot
  • Space
  • Idea
  • Inspirations

• I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Band
  • New York
  • Grew Up

• I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

  

  Dave Navarro Jane's Addiction
  • Listening
  • Grew Up
  • Led Zeppelin

• You couldn't escape the literary atmosphere in our home. I grew up as a Britisher. I played a protagonist of every nationality in stage adaptations of Shakespeare and Brecht. I graduated from Yale. When I moved to the U.S., I realized with some amount of surprise that I was seen as an ethnic actor.

  

  Satya Bhabha
  • Actor
  • Surprise
  • Escape

• As someone who grew up in a house where there wasn't a lot of talking, I'm used to just looking at the world. And in general I often feel like I just don't understand what's happening. That everybody else does, but I don't quite get it.

  

  Mike Mills
  • World
  • House
  • Talking

• I grew up in a little town called Uckfield, and there's not much to do - so we used to fight a lot. I was never in serious trouble, but we used to have the local bobby round the house saying, 'Rory's been up to this again.'

  

  Rory Charles Graham
  • Grew Up
  • Fight
  • Trouble

• I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.

  

  Carl Perkins
  • Business
  • Audience
  • Difference

• I grew up near King's Cross station in London, living in an apartment block where my dad was a caretaker.

  

  Phil Daniels
  • Dad
  • Grew Up
  • Station

• So to compare the Beatles, obviously the Beatles are the Beatles, but in hip-hop terms, Tribe is the Beatles. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five are the Beatles. Big Daddy Kane is Jimi Hendrix. It means that much to people that grew up with it.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Grew Up
  • Compare
  • Beatles

• God help me if I ever do another movie with an explosion in it. If you see me in a movie where stuff is exploding you'll know I've lost all my money.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • God
  • Money
  • Movie

• I'll tell you that the dog whistle politics is badly missing the mark. Because, you know, as I've been speaking about it, sure, I've got some racists who come and complain about it. That happens. Right? But I have been absolutely overwhelmed - absolutely overwhelmed - by the number of everyday people who have contacted me with one simple question: what can I do to help?

  

  Naheed Nenshi
  • People
  • Simple
  • Dog

• I know! I know! But it's really coming out. They say they want it out for September 20th, I say the 27th.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Really
  • September
  • Coming Out

• ...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in the future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Suffering
  • Enlightenment
  • Photographers

• The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got interested in comedy writing at an early like reading like Dave Barry.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Comedy

• We performed at the VMAs, which is crazy because we grew up watching that show and all of our inspirations and idols were there.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Grew Up
  • Performed
  • Inspirations