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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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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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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No one anticipates divorce when they're exchanging vows, and it can be devastating emotionally and financially. To ease the financial side of the blow, you need to maintain your financial identity in your relationship. That means having your own credit history - you need your own credit card - and your own savings and retirement accounts.
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The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction of a duty accomplished.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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When I was attorney general, we had the strongest public integrity unit in the country.
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I'm not comparing myself to Bobby Kennedy by any stretch, but he was opposed by the liberal establishment, too. Eleanor Roosevelt was the biggest opponent to him running.
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I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.