Andra Day Quotes
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I miss my friends in public school, but it's kind of a part of something that you have to give up. I'd rather perform than go to public school.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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There are so many people who are arguing or fighting over issues which don't have much relevance. We must all realise it is not worth it.
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My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.
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Israel was founded as a refuge for the Jewish people, but today it isn't a safe place. It is safer to be Jew in New York.
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The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back.
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There's no other art form in the world that affects me more.
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He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.
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In the subconscious fantasies that make conception look so alluring, it is often ourselves that we would like to see live forever, not someone with a personality of his own.
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My older brother Billy was really into video games, and of course I followed suit. I was such a dork - I was so geeky!
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
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I'm not interested in clothes that just convey a certain look or fashion. Clothes for me have always been a form of self-expression.
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As my face got cleaner, my relationships got cleaner.
