Netta (Netta Barzilai) Quotes
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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I never was a very good singer.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I still have my school friends who are actually friends. It's nice that they don't think much about my singing career. They think it is cool, and they are happy for me, but they don't really bother me about it. To them, I'm still just the schoolgirl from next door.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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The way you wield your power is about using it to afford you opportunities that you wouldn't otherwise have. So I'm very creatively ambitious, and I just hope people notice it; that's all I want.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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Everyone dreams of living in Paris.
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All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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I hear poets complaining: 'We face what our forebears did not face. We face TV. We face radio. We face this and that.'
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me.
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In sport, all my fellow riders and trainers and the people I meet and deal with have just accepted the fact that I'm here forever.
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Politics is not really my thing.
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Cultists do not want to admit they have been manipulated by charisma. Nigerian money scheme victims do not want to accept that they had been swindled. To accept those realities is to accept their own faults. Denial of our own weaknesses is something we all suffer from time to time.
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I don't want to make niche-oriented music.
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We have a battle over the fundamentals of our country.
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When I do documentaries, my best information ends up on the cutting-room floor. People have trouble dealing with sexual honesty.
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I don’t want to let my country down, now that expectations are so high.
