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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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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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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There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.
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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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English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries to imitate subjects it can never be.
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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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We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'
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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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I don't want to lose my fitness. I'm 45. I have two babies. I've got a long way to go and I want to keep in tiptop shape. There's no magic bullet.
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I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.
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I will say I remember the best thing in terms of publicity was being on the cover of Newsweek.
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I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn.
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The secret of a successful marriage is not to be at home too much.
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I really wanted my music to reflect my personal life and what I set out to do every day.
