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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When you say a friend has a sense of humor do you mean that he makes you laugh, or that he can make you laugh?
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I never wanted to do music to get girls, right, to get popular, or anything like that. I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can. I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it. So I'm my own worst critic and harshest critic and I just want to put honest music out there.
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I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion.
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I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.
