Dinah Jane Quotes
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When I was a model, everybody was scrutinising me and I felt I had to go to the gym because my figure had to be fantastic. Now that I'm a singer, I've got a different kind of body – it's more athletic.
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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Obviously, I'm not a singer. I don't consider myself a singer.
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I love Katy Perry, she is a wonderful pop singer.
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I always thought I was a singer, but I really am not.
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Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage.
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There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.
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I have so much respect for the big opera singers that I never dare to say I'm a singer.
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Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.
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My favorite singer is Lauryn Hill - all time, hands down. She was my biggest inspiration growing up.
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I don't think of myself as a folk singer per se, but I really like blues and string-band music. When I started listening to records when I was a teenager, the folk boom was going on.
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The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.
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I'm a piano player. I never thought of myself as a singer, at all. I was always trying to sound like somebody else. I don't like my own voice, I like Ray Charles, Robert Plant, I like Joe Cocker, Rod Stewart, people that have an edge in their voice.
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Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
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Twenty or 30 years ago, psychiatrists and other physicians believed that childhood was a happy time. We had a belief that psychiatric disorders didn't begin until a child reached puberty or after. That wasn't based on science. It was based on the philosophical sense that children are always happy.
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It's no fun losing a tooth or getting your face whacked by a stick.
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Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.
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Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.
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My mother is a singer herself.
