Natalie Cole Quotes
I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
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When we were younger, we sang at the dinner table. We started doing two part harmony, then three part, and then we added back up tapes and instruments.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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When I was a young person working, everybody was older than me, so I had to kind of keep up. I'd see every movie and listen to everything played, and read all the relevant books. Being an actor, it's kind of your job to know what came before you and how big your feelings are allowed to be.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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A certain tiny percentage of everyone is gay.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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My pen and paper causes a chain reaction, to get your brain relaxing.
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ISIS is luring Americans with empty and false promises that do not reflect reality on the ground in Iraq.
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'The Haters' has some of the generalities of band experiences that I've had - the camaraderie, the grubbiness, the outsized collective ambitions and frequent painful collisions with reality - but very few of the specifics. I guess it was a way for me to take some of my experiences to their logical crazy extremes.
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Michael had to pound me a couple of times to convince me not to go stage a rescue." Shane shrugged. "He hits like a girl, for a vampire.
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I never got to make that transition from little girl to young woman... and that really screws you up.
