Lena Horne Quotes
It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
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Writing has been handed to me on a plate.
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The world is always in movement.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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I watch virtually no TV. All my screen time is computer time for me. When I'm not doing that I'm reading or talking to my friends who I got to know through computers.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
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What we do is nothing like the portrayal of badminton as a gentle game played in a church hall. Badminton can be fun and relaxing, but as professionals, this sport is our heart and soul and passion, and our games are fast and aggressive.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one tribe called humans.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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I do not need a producer. I need only a good production manager. I need only a man who will give me money.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.
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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
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It's incredibly fun to play someone that you don't like. It exorcises your own demons in a way. It's cathartic. We all have things that we don't like about ourselves, little things. And I get to amplify those things and put them out there. It's fun and it has a cleansing effect.
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Children are perfectly happy to sit next to spiders; it is only grown-ups who are frightened away.
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The quickest way to change your attitude toward pain is to accept the fact that everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.
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It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do.
