Cynthia Addai-Robinson Quotes
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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We are not the same India that the world saw in the 1970s and '80s. Hence, we have a responsibility to live up to the pedestal on which we have been put.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
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There are very few great poets in the world.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I left the White House in 2007. You know, I knew when I went there that it would be for a limited period of time. I was grateful that the average tenure of a white house senior aide is 18 to 20 months. I was there for nearly seven years.
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I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
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You will always need more capital than you think, because it will always take you longer to reach profitability than you can imagine.
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Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.
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One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.
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When I was asked to read a screenplay about Margaret Thatcher, I think I felt immediate apprehension.
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Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second.
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Music excites me, inspires me, fuels me! I listen to music every single day.
