Angie Stone Quotes

I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.

Angie Stone

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• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Think
  • Three
  • Mexican

• Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Live
  • High

• I want to be in 'Glee', but I'm told I'm not famous enough to be a cameo yet.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • Want
  • Enough
  • Famous

• I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Up
  • Good
  • Live

• Competition is good and has served us well.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Good
  • Competition
  • Well

• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Face
  • Fiction

• I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Painting
  • Drawing
  • Loved

• If a woman doesn't chase a man a little, she doesn't love him.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Love
  • Man
  • Woman

• To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • Song
  • Write

• A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • You
  • Take
  • Vacation

• I'm working class. Not because my family have always been skint or because I'm from the grim north, but because I am from a class of people who believe in work. In paying their way.

  

  Ian Watson
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

• I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Time
  • Real
  • Trying

• In Jamaica, them always have throwback riddims, recycled old beats, and the hardcore reggae scene is always present. You have faster stuff like the more commercialized stuff, but you always have that segment of music that is always from the core, from the original root of it.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Music
  • Present
  • Old

• The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one. A Stanford study showed that those who saw a photo of their future self made smarter financial decisions.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Future
  • Respect
  • Friend

• A few friends and me used to go and watch Bunuel, Carne, Cocteau... Cocteau and Bunuel were surrealism. And I was very excited by that. 'Un Chien Andalou', especially.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Friends
  • Me
  • Watch

• I'm not at every party; I'm not seen everywhere. That's why people still care about my brand.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • People
  • Why
  • Party

• I did a lot of trapeze stuff when I did 'Pippin' and continued to do it afterward. Flying is so fun, and I was used to the harness idea, but these harnesses are like intense, full bodysuit things.

  

  Ciara Renee
  • Fun
  • Flying

• It feels like now I - you know, I'm almost 80 years old - I can sit back and retire, you know, and say, 'Look, our young people are taking over.' And that's great. That's what I'd like to see.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • People
  • Great

• My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when she was born; my mom was 15 when I was born. So, as we got older, we started thinking a lot about that - about the time that those people missed because we came along when we did and because they devoted so much of their lives to taking care of us.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• As you keep pulling back the layers of how deeply rooted anti-blackness and white supremacy are in this country, it is exhausting, and it is traumatizing.

  

  Alicia Garza
  • Country

• I forget to take care of Angie being so busy taking care of everyone else.

  

  Angie Stone