Brooke Valentine (Kanesha Nichole Brookes) Quotes
I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I always think it's because of you know hard work, hard training. And if Susie's training hard, you know, why can't I train hard to get a world record. I'm doing the same thing.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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Make-up is an extension of your clothes.
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Producers want to put their music behind revivals but I don't think that's a good trend for the theater at all.
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I think there are only two kinds of heroes: the flamboyant ones and the angry-yet-silent types. Every character on TV falls into either category.
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Back in the day, when I started, you were still allowed to make mistakes. You got to make your mistakes in public, in a way. I think the world was a more forgiving place when I started my career, in the sense that we got time and space to develop as a writer.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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Wherever I go meeting the public... spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.
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Not only are police officers often taken for granted, many people are highly vocal about their dislike for cops.
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Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.
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I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written.
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I'm a big fan, and I like the idea of fighting Roy Jones Jr.
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I like to think I put some of myself in every character.
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I had a little radio, and I listened to music in my bedroom when I was supposed to be sleeping. I was probably 6 or 7 years old, and I loved the DJs who would come on and talk about the artists and the songs they were singing, and they gave away prizes. I was like, 'This is a cool job!'
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I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
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I'm not one of those people who believes in going endlessly around finger wagging and ticking people off for occasional colourful use of language.
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One of the most insidious myths in American wine culture is that a wine is good if you like it. Liking a wine has nothing to do with whether it is good. Liking a wine has to do with liking that wine, period. Wine requires two assessments: one subjective, the other objective. In this it is like literature. You may not like reading Shakespeare but agree that Shakespeare was a great writer nonetheless.
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I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.
