Lauryn Hill Quotes
When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
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Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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I've heard expressions like, 'Are you good in bed?' What does that even mean? For me, good in bed means sleeping seven hours. Undisturbed! If I get eight hours, that means I'm amazing!
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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Music is really something that makes people whole.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for us.” Did he say both things? Could he mean both things? How can both be true at once? Or is it possible that one of the Gospel writers got things switched around?
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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To be clear, the gap between the have gots and the have nots is widening. In this most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, that concerns me.
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When I have a creative insight, there is a high. I think back in the day, I made music as much as I did because it made me feel so good. I think you could argue that there is a creative addiction - but, you know, the healthy kind.
