Teddy Pendergrass Quotes
I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.
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I was not so interested in night-after-night coverage of Michael Jackson's death or Britney Spears' latest breakdown - topics that were 'breaking news' at the time.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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Be obscure clearly.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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It is faith that drives us to build, a belief that we cannot be limited by lack of nerve or airspace.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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I just can't see myself as a trophy wife. I can't imagine not having my own life.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.
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What I love about a play is that it's such an investment because only time can create a lot of what happens onstage.
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I'm an actor, so I like costumes.
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Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.
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Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
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There will be many who will eagerly and with great care and solicitude follow up a thing, which, if they only knew its malignity, would always terrify them. Of those men, who, the older they grow, the more avaricious they become, whereas, having but little time to stay, they should become more liberal.
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You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.
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I think a comedian has a more specific job. Whereas a musician can fall into different categories, you know, of making background music or doing a soundtrack or wanting to be in a band or writing the song, or writing your own songs. And then comedy is a very black and white thing. You want to make people happy.
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You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?
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I love to be in control of everything I do and everything around me. So that means, you give me a romantic lyric and I'll make the atmosphere, I will build on that. And then the song then becomes, it takes me to do the song, it's just a belief, it's just who I am.
