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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I might have been told to put a comb through my hair once or twice - by my mother!
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It's true that I score a lot of penalties. If referees give us penalties and the coach names me as the penalty-taker, I have to take them. That doesn't mean that I'm going to score them.
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Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.
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My mother is a singer herself.
