Ally Brooke (Allyson Brooke Hernandez) Quotes
Nicki Minaj is definitely somebody that we love. She is such a powerful, strong woman, and she's so talented.
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
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I think the dot-com boom and bust represented the end of the beginning. The industry is more mature today.
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Until I went to rehab, I didn't understand what it did.
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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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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.
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At 14, 15 years old, I started reading 'Backstage' regularly. Eventually, I got enough courage to look at the auditions section.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.
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My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.
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Nicki Minaj is definitely somebody that we love. She is such a powerful, strong woman, and she's so talented.
