Amy Winehouse Quotes
I'm a songwriter but she Katie Melua has her songs written for her... She must think it's her fucking lucky day... It's not like she's singing old songs like Jamie Cullum, she's singing shit new songs that her manager writes for her.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I'd been touring for so long, seven years. For a year and a half I'd just been curious about what it was like not to tour. It's like if you were to lift a 100-pound barbell with your right arm for seven years, eventually you'd get really curious about what your left arm was capable of.
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God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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I constantly work at maintaining balance. For me, my family comes first. If my family is taken care of, then everything else usually falls into place.
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You never get quite down to the bottom of the barrel, but we are much higher than that at the present time. There is quite a lot left in the barrel that could be explained by them. If they have some weapons, if they have some anthrax, they should deliver that.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used.
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What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
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People who hold a low view of themselves [will credit] their achievements to external factors, rather than to their own capabilities.
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By the 1970s, the American woman was being called ‘liberated’ or ‘superwoman’ while the American man was being called ‘baby killer’ if he fought in Vietnam, ‘traitor’ if he protested, or ‘apathetic’ if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.
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She really mellowed me out that way. We both definitely grew with each other and with the whole experience.
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I'm a songwriter but she Katie Melua has her songs written for her... She must think it's her fucking lucky day... It's not like she's singing old songs like Jamie Cullum, she's singing shit new songs that her manager writes for her.
