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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The good thing is that I'm always honest.
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If it's good for Alaska, do it. And if it isn't, screw it.
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I'm either in heels or barefoot.
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Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
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The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except Shakespeare.
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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.
