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 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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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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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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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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Stepping away from Fun. was both exciting and terrifying.
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I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.
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I was a bit of a troubled kid growing up, let's put it that way. I didn't take pleasure in hard work.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead.
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Don't say I was tough. I was strong. I had to be, because Ronnie liked everybody and sometimes didn't see - or refused to see - what the people around him were really up to. But everything I did, I did for Ronnie. I did for love.
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My fifth-grade teacher, Mrs. Poppy, had us each write a 'novel,' whatever that meant to us. It must have been 10 pages long, and we bound it and colored the front. And she wrote on mine, 'I can't wait till your real novel comes out. Give me a call.'
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Nicki Minaj is definitely somebody that we love. She is such a powerful, strong woman, and she's so talented.
