Corinne Bailey Rae Quotes
I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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The beautiful thing about theater is every night is an opportunity to incorporate what you discovered the night before.
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When you play a character, there are choices you have to make about the past, the present, the future, etc. You have to make those choices on your own a lot.
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It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.
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Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being.
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When a producer like Prasad, who knows people's pulse, is ready to try something new, why not me?
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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The Tamil industry, while being better than all the other film industries when it comes to treating female actors, is still dominated by men. So, I can only work within the space offered to heroines, and I think I am doing that.
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You can't meditate on walking or certain human habits. You concentrate too much on the way you walk, and you'll start walking pretty weird.
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Science by itself is about numbers, and it's about measuring things. It's very important but it's very dry.
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You have to teach children about money intentionally - create teachable moments.
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I've been surfing several times, and I'm terrible at it. But what I found was that you're usually waiting on the board, hanging out, watching the waves come in. And one that you think is a big wave is not actually one.
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The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.
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Back in 2005, the Anthony Nolan Trust could have asked me just to speak out about the lack of ethnic minority donors on the bone marrow register, but that would have meant nothing if I wasn't prepared to join up myself.
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I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry.
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I was Santa Claus in first year of primary school, our elementary's school play, because I had most panache, that was probably why. I was 5.
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Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery.
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I feel like it's me singing back to myself as a younger person and saying have confidence in being a bit different.
